Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jeremiah Prophet
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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'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
