https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/nyregion/cnn-time-warner-bomb-nyc.html
But people across the country were not taking any chances with
suspicious packages after six pipe bombs were sent to prominent
Democrats on the East Coast.
What does it mean?
- people were not having the chance to get a suspicious packages.
- people were anxious about every packages they received.
Best Answer
Taking a chance or to take a chance means choosing to do something that has a risk of failure or of negative consequences.
Not taking any chances or to take no chances means to avoid anything that has a risk of failure or of negative consequences (or at least to try to do so).
In this context it means that people will be extra careful of suspicious packages because of the circumstances, whereas normally people might be more willing to assume that suspicious packages are just mislabeled, delivered to the wrong address, etc.