And yet one has to wonder whether one person's mind will be changed; from favoring more restrictions to favoring the lifting of restrictions.

I predict (and it requires no prescience, as they do this sort of thing nearly every time) that if they acknowledge these reports at all it will be to smear them as being "funded by the powerful gun lobby" or some such drivel.

The antis' best bet is to do the other thing they do so well-- ignore and redirect (ignore reality and redirect people's attention toward emotional anecdote).

The thing to keep in mind in all of this is that the purpose of gun laws is not and never has been to reduce either crime or accidents. That is merely the sales pitch-- the spoonful of sugar to make the bad tasting medicine go down—the makeup and the pretty lace on the old, syphilitic whore. The reason for gun laws is to empower a few at the expense of the many.