In other news, the law trumps policy
Judge rules that obeying the law is obeying the law:
A Michigan judge this week ruled that a parent should be allowed to openly carry a gun inside his daughters school on the east side of the state, despite it being a gun-free zone by school policy.
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Michigan law allows people with concealed pistol licenses to carry openly in schools, which ultimately led to the judges decision.
You could have lead with that second sentence there.
August 18th, 2015 at 12:06 pm
The story lede above is an example of the “Butterfield Effect” in which causation and effect are reversed due to the inherent bias or the reporter.
This effect was noted long ago by WSJ’s James Taranto, in his column “Best of the Web” and is eponymously named after the idiot reporter Fox Butterfield.
That reporter famously noted that crime rates continued to fall, “despite” the increasing rate of incarceration of criminals.
Other examples are Obama winning “despite” McCain’s outreach across the aisle, total crime rates decreasing “despite” increased numbers of guns in private hands, and global warming continuing “despite” US decreases in CO2 emissions.