Secret Weapons?
On an impulse possibly unique in the history of human gratitude, he decided to do something decent for a journalist.
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Two months have passed since Birch launched his crusade. There was a flurry of some 50 letters. They didn’t win Stevens her column back. “We may even have hurt her,” Birch told me the other day. “That’s what worries me.”
Is John Birch your real name? I said.
I said I’d try to find out.
Despite the people she knows of who tried to pull concealed guns on bandits and were shot dead for their trouble, Stevens thinks Chicago should allow its citizens to carry: predators would no longer be able to assume their prey was unarmed. Not that she’s been writing editorials arguing this position. “My view is not in line with the editorial board.”
E-mail. Unfortunately, when the Sun-Times editorial board decides whom to endorse for the Republican nomination for governor, Michelle Stevens won’t have the luxury of ignoring education, airports, taxes, the death penalty, social services, and public works. “She’s a little more broad-spectrum than I am,” said Birch.
