To the editor:

In the wake of the Colorado movie theater horror story, I have only one thing to say: Sell them all the guns they want, just don’t let them have the ammunition.

Make bullets and shells as difficult as possible for anyone to get, and sell maybe a dozen at a time. Yes, I know, automatics and semi-automatics use whole ropes of ammo. Well, sell six inches at a time.

We are never going to cure our fellow Americans of their fanatic insistence on their God-given right to firearms. Short of going out and shooting them all ourselves, which is against my personal principles. Tempting though it be.

I suggest that police and hospitals take NRA types by the elbows and guide them through the emergency wards, the terminal wards, the morgues, let them see what bullets can do to poor mortals. Most of those people have no idea, they just see bang bangs on television or video games, and the characters pop right up again, as good as ever.

Either that or invite al- Qaida in, and let’s have a real war. That might cure us of our babyish behavior.

Jo Cameron
Edgecomb