Letter to Spudnik: Murder of Robert McCartney

Sir,
I think that the family of Robert McCartney missed a chance to solve the problem of the IRA once and for all, possibly through unfamiliarity with mathematical proof by induction. Had they only accepted the generous offer to shoot those responsible, with the proviso that the families of those shot acted as they did, then in quite a short time the IRA would have wiped itself out.
Yours etc, Steve, Dublin.