Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-the-bb9         Thanks to the 750 of you who commented on the homicide spike post (as of last weekend when I collated these highlights). I don't 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