And each side simply dismisses conclusions from the other side as wrong, convinced that the facts support their position.
Bear in mind that the string puller antis don't really even care about crime rates or anything like that, it's just a talking point for their useful idiot grade foot soldiers that don't know any better.... The string pullers want the public disarmed so they can get closer to absolute subservience to big government and whatever other interests they have. We've seen evidence of this over and over again, through gun control pushes in places that have little or no crime, like VT, NH, ME, and others.... this agenda is all about removing barriers to the limits of their power, not "crime" or "gun violence" or any of that BS... they just want the .gov or their interests to be the only ones with the guns, because millions of armed citizens represent a huge threat to advanced forms of socialist policy.... they fear people with guns eventually going full boogaloo over stuff like confiscatory tax rates, laws limiting behaviour or free speech, social credit systems, "needs" testing of social security, and so forth. They want us in a eurotrash meets Venezuela type police state so resistance is exponentially more difficult than it is now.....
-Mike