BUt there is one very important aspect you missed IMO.Honestly, from all the research I've done. The stats can go for us or against us, just like they can go for or against the Bradys. Crime will always exist. Socioeconomic status and geographic location have a lot to do with crime rates.
For me it's not a numbers game. Plainly we have a right to self-defense. That is the bottom line. A free citizen is armed, bottom line. You really shouldn't have to argue much about it.
For decades people have been arguing things using arbitrary correlations and statistics while ignoring the underlying issues. The RKBA issue is a moral and human issue, not a mathematical equation, IMO.
Like I said to the reporter that asked me how the stats of lower crime can have other explanations besides allowing people to conceal carry and how it does not prove my position, I responded to her that I don't have to prove it is true. All I have to do is show it proves they (the Bradys) are wrong and their claims are lies.
More legally purchased guns or more guns overall even and more concealed carry did NOT raise murder and violent crime as the Brady Campaign (as HCI too) said for decades.
See, the biggest tool for inducing hysteria the antis have been using for forty years or more is statistics and scary large numbers. We remove that basis for their entire position from them and their house of cards falls down.
The best way to fight propaganda that people fell for is not with more propaganda, rather it is to expose their propaganda as lies to the people that fell for it and nothing will change someone's mind more than knowing they were being manipulated and taken for fools.
I will continue to focus on the statistics to a severe degree as a counter to them using theirs, but I will also constantly point out that it is all really about a personal human right to self defense (like I did yesterday).