To the Editor:

This is an open letter to members of the National Rifle Association.

Ask yourselves these questions:

If the killer of the kids in Connecticut had no access to firearms, would the death toll be as high?

If, as the NRA maintains, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people,” would this degree of mayhem have occurred?

How does this incident relate to “a well regulated militia …”?

I believe, after sanity checks, hunters should have access to firearms provided they eat what they kill.

And the military? Only in our defense.

I’m an old man. To advise is the most and the least I can do. Please consider the following carefully:

If the NRA doesn’t have your support, it is weakened.

Better than letting your NRA membership lapse as a result of this incident, why not cancel it and thereby make a louder protest?

Bob Dale
Brunswick