“Last month I gave out a vehicle for engaging business owners who prohibit guns in their establishments. It consisted of a cover letter asking for their thoughts after they read a copy of my column analyzing who gun free zones protect us from, and a lined sheet of paper for them to write back to you. You added a business envelope to send it to them and a stamped, self addressed envelope for them to send their answer back. Easy peasy. So far, the file has been downloaded 565 times. If we assume about half the well intentioned folks did nothing with it, we have 280. If each of them actually used it for one business and passed the file on to a friend or two by email, we are probably back to maybe 500 tries to engage someone on the other side with a reasoned argument and a polite request for a response. I also asked for anybody who did get a response to let me know at danbidstrup at hotmail dot com. After nearly two months, how many responses have I gotten? Zippo! Not one.” (07/28/10)