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Boy tells Biden US needs 'chocolate bullets'

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AP Milwaukee
Last Updated : May 14 2013 | 7:55 PM IST
It might not be unusual for school children to write to the president or vice president. But one boy got an unexpectedly personal response.
The 7-year-old, second-grade student at Downtown Montessori Academy in Milwaukee wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer.
His teacher Jenny Aicher says his letter suggested that if guns shot chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt.
The student and the rest of the school got a surprise yesterday when Biden's handwritten response arrived in the mail.
In the note, the vice president says he agrees that chocolate bullets would make the country safer and happier.
The note concludes: "People love chocolate. You are a good boy.

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First Published: May 14 2013 | 7:55 PM IST

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