Sometimes I feel as if I’m living in Upside Down World:

Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols — popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters — flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.

“We’re at double our volume over what we usually do,” Wolff said two days after the shooting spree that also left 14 wounded, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition.

A national debate over weaknesses in state and federal gun laws stirred by the shooting has stoked fears among gun buyers that stiffer restrictions may be coming from Congress, gun dealers say. The result is that a deadly demonstration of the weapon’s effectiveness has also fired up sales of handguns in Arizona and other states, according to federal law enforcement data. [...]

Democratic Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York said this week that she plans to introduce legislation that would ban the high-capacity magazine.

Nobody is taking your guns away, America. The Second Amendment is not on life support, it’s not even being threatened.

However, consider this: The only reason to use a magazine that contains 33 rounds would be a mass killing. Law enforcement’s standard magazine is less than half of that:

According to a senior attorney with the Brady Campaign, they rated Arizona a two out of 100 on the organization’s rating of state gun laws. Arizona’s rate of gun deaths is one and a half times the national average.

You can bet the gun lobbyists will be stuffing the pockets and pocket books of Congress members, and no new laws limiting gun/ammo use or sales will stand a chance.

As Twitter pal Noetical tweeted to me just now, ”Sadly, I’d be more shocked if this results in any new laws limiting guns or ammo than I was to hear about the shooting.”

H/t: cbn2