Side point, but I've seen many articles etc over the years by people who started out anti-gun/pro gun control but after doing research on the matter and seeing all the data have become anti gun control. For example the one somebody posted above from the Washington Post. I have yet to single person who made the switch the other way based on looking at the data. (Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough and there people out there, but I haven't seen them so far.)