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Originally Posted by water_boy1999
Selling within 1000 feet of a school should land you 20 in the pen. Life? Perhaps a bit harsh. The reality of it is this: What do you think this guy will be doing when he gets out of prison. You think after 20 years he will be reformed and go find a nice white collar job making 6 figures?
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Any different punishment due to distance from a school needs to have some sort of reasoning to it. 1000 feet is nearly a quarter of a mile away from the school. That is pretty damn far in my book. Kids sitting on the playground aren't going to see it and very few would even walk by it on their way to school. I can see a different punishment if the person is caught in a house across the street from the school but not a quarter of a mile away.
Realistically, how many people serve ANY time in prison and then get some nice white collar job? Very few.
Society is forgetting about letting the punishment fit the crime and levying extreme punishments against people who supply WILLING users with an illegal product. I got robbed at gunpoint once. They never caught the guy but even if they did he wouldn't be doing 20 years to life and that person threatened my life without my consent.
By the way, has anyone noticed how well these harsher pentalties penalties have worked? It's as if drugs don't even exist anymore. Where did they go?