Kids these days

Ask-a-Lawyer gets a bit ticked off with a questioner who's trying to help 'a friend' minimize the consequences of using a toy gun to rob a cab driver:

... you so off-handedly refer to the “play gun” and the eight dollars that your friend and his accomplice stole from their victim as if the fact that the gun was “only” a toy, and that they “only” got eight dollars from the robbery somehow mitigates what they did. Are you kidding me? Your friend may have known it was a “play gun,” but I’m guessing he didn’t clue the victim into that fact.