Gee, I wonder why? Sande Knight ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathleen Turner<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kyle Cassidy<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Ucneighbors] Public Safety: An oxymoron?
I'm glad to hear that this has changed. I was held up at gunpoint about 44th & Pine about 17 years ago -- same guy held up 3 more people with a couple of blocks that night and, not surprisingly, was caught. He was convicted, but as it turned out that he had a starter pistol, he didn't get the mandatory sentence that would have been imposed if it had been a real gun. Funny, but it never occured to me to ask the guy whether the gun was real or not. Kathleen On 11/14/07, Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > The weapon was a glue gun, by the way. I was just speaking with a Philly Public Defender who mentioned that a glue gun (or a bb gun or a toy gun) gets you the same jail sentence as a real gun. Pennsylvania has decided that it's not the victim's job to determine if they're being robbed with a toy or a real gun though many criminals are under the misapprehension that if they don't use a real gun, they won't do real time. Not so, you would-be miscreants -- the crime, from my understanding, is the same. kc _______________________________________________ ucneighbors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors<http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors> _______________________________________________ ucneighbors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors