@Turkeynomster
You misunderstood. The article, which summarizes several studies, argues the more guns are owned, the more (detected) crimes there are. It doesn’t directly touch on gun laws other than comparing the violent crimes rates amongst states with hard-to-get gun permits and two temporally differentiated types of states with easy-to-get permits in which the former gains relatively more progress than the other two in lowing violent crimes rates. All other factors that you’ve mentioned such as crimes not accounted for, premeditated crimes, and the castle doctrine are not accounted for because the point is
More guns owned is correlated with more (detected) crimes.
Nothing else. It is a statistical deduction. It is intuitive, not deductive. It is a theorem with counterexamples. It is not mathematically provable. It is contingent, not deterministic. It is a correlation, not a causation. It is for most cases, but not all.
So,
Gun control laws are a palliative, not a cure.
This is the second time you’ve disregarded statistical deductions.