And It Will Now Become A Regular Feature at NRA NASCAR Races
I need to confess that I am not a NASCAR fan. I don’t have anything against rednecks driving fast in circles, but I can see that for free in East Bernard after a VFW Dance when nobody can find their way out of the parking lot.
I believe that people go to NASCAR races to see a crash. So when the NRA and NASCAR teamed up, fans were not disappointed.
A Texas man used a gun to commit suicide in the infield of a National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth late on Saturday, local authorities said.
Kirk Franklin, 42, of nearby Saginaw died after shooting himself at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday during the NRA 500 Sprint Cup race, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.
NASCAR races with rednecks, beer, and guns is probably almost a good idea if you want to thin out the herd.
Otherwise, it sucks big time.
The irony… There are not supposed to be any guns allowed at Texas Motor Speedway, but how can one resist when it’s the NRA-sponsored race? Luckily, nobody else of the 100,000 race fans were injured. It could have been so much worse, it being an argument between drunks in the infield and all.
1Has more attention been placed on these gun related incidents or are there just more of them these days?
2I think I would have noticed before if they were being reported.
We were there for the Friday night race, saw the NRA sign and assumed it meant “No Rednecks Allowed.” Apparently we were mistaken. That sort of explains all of the women with tattoos wearing short shorts with cowboy boots and shirts that exposed their winnebagos to the night air. But that’s OK; Uncle Dave is not opposed to winnebagos.
3One thing about it JJ, his second amendment rights were preserved, and honored to the very end.
4Here’s a statistic for you: In 2011, there were about 30,000 gun deaths in the U.S. Of those, almost 20,000 were suicides. This case is yet another one of those. Suicidal people should be on the list of those not allowed to have firearms.
5This seems to have been very much a mixed message. I mean, is it pro-gun or anti-gun. Works both ways.
6So I’m sitting here thinking: all those people who camp out in the infield probably have weapons. In a stadium that can hold over a 100,000 people. How do they check all those campers on the infield, or do they? Is there any other stadium you can think of where you’d be allowed to bring in guns?
7James, They check beer coolers for glass bottles; you can carry in your own beer, but glass is not allowed. If you want to pack heat, don’t put it in your beer cooler. I know this because I am married to a bleeding-heart liberal, ACLU member who is a rabid NASCAR fan. We met in the George McGovern campaign. Go figure.
8Oh, Uncle Dave, you’ve done it again — I just snorted my ice tea up my nose. Winnebagos — Ha!
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