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Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah shit ok, you're right then, this 'highway' is pretty much just 'any publicly maintained road' in Nebrasaka.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not just Nebraska but most, possibly all, US states. From what I've seen, anyhow. Hence my note about it being a term of art. In the law books it doesn't mean the same thing normal people think it ought to mean.

(Same thing with "assault," incidentally.)

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Well shit, TIL.

Genuienly thank you for the uh... legal education, I guess you'd say.

Maybe its just that the state I am from is particularly weird about this, or maybe I just had an unfounded notion.

Either way, always appreciate being less wrong.

And yeah woooey assault is not what most people think it is, either as a crime in and of itself, or, as a descriptor of a class of weapons.