Here’s one Harvey posted in 2009. — The Editors

Since Obama got elected, we’ve been reading this story every month or so, with slight variations:

Smith & Wesson is expecting sales to rise by 30 per cent to $102 million in the first quarter of the next financial year, after growing by more than 13 per cent this year to $335 million.

At Sturm and Ruger, sales for the third quarter hit $71.2 million, up 70 per cent from the same period last year. At Glock, the leader in law enforcement markets, pistol sales rose by 71 per cent in the first quarter of the financial year for 2010, in comparison with the same period last year.

Now the FBI says there’s been a drop in the crime rate, and ABC News thinks it’s because of…

Cops with computers:

Professor James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said police have been more targeted in recent years on repeat offenders and high-crime areas, often using computers.

Yeah, sure, it’s all about the SCMODS.

Since they’re not going to connect the dots, I’ll just toss off some half-assed suggestions as to why crime may have dipped. And, stupid as they are, they’re STILL better guesses than what the torpid teleprompter-readers at ABC threw out there:

Is America safe for kittens again?

• Criminals imagine that by doing nothing, they could win a Nobel Peace Prize, just like Obama.
• Can’t get to the liquor store to rob it because the streets are packed with two feet of Gore Effect Global Warming.
• Shortage of criminals due to a vast swath of them “going legit” as Obama’s Czars.
• Obama must’ve passed a bill designed to increase crime.
• ACORN lost its funding.
• Crime now uncool since iPhone doesn’t have an app for that.
• Death of Michael Jackson to blame for decrease in number of Smooth Criminals.
• Combination of the popularity of the Snuggie, and the fact that it has no pocket for your gun.
• Illegal activity is no longer counted as a “crime”, it’s counted as “creating or saving a cop’s job”.
• It’s not going down! It’s going up! We have the hockey-stick graph to prove it! Global Criming is REAL!

So tell me… why do YOU think crime is down?

Speaking of Harvey, if you can spare a little…