Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike

Published: July 8, 2022, 12:38 p.m.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-the-bb9

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Thanks to the 750 of you who commented on the homicide spike post (as of last weekend when I collated these highlights). I don\u2019t have enough space here to address everything, but here are some general themes:

Was It Guns?

Artifex0 on the subreddit writes:

You mentioned that you haven't looked closely into the idea that increased gun sales were to blame. I haven't either, but that hypothesis immediately seems more plausible to me. Here's a graph of gun sales showing the pretty big spike around the same time as the homicide spike