NASCAR's Road to Newtown/Sandy Hook?

You just can't make this stuff up?  A professional sports league (NASCAR) is saddling up with the largest hand gun, rifle, and assault rifle lobbyists in the country?  Yes, for the love of Ben Hur, the upcoming (April 13th) Sprint Cup series is sponsored by the National Rifle Association to present -- yep, Billy Bob, you got it ... the NRA 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway in beautiful Ft. Worth, just a few miles from where President John F. Kennedy took a rifle blast to his head in 1963.

Tell us what would happen if #NBA had signed this #NASCAR sponsor? (April 13 at Texas Motor Speedway NRA 500). Tix? ticketmaster.com/event/0C004965…
— DigitalSportsDesk (@DigSportsDesk) March 27, 2013

As a communications guru in the world of sports and one who dabbled with a little bit of racism blended in with public opinion, I could only IMAGINE what would be going on if, say, the National Basketball Association were to have the N.R.A. Slam-Dunk Contest.  Oh, the humanity.

By the way ... my viewpoint? I'm not concerned with the gun collectors and the hunters having their rights.  I believe the authors of the Second Amendment had a much different frame of mind when they edited the U.S. Constitution, but that's another long story.

I would prefer we (meaning the USA and the people/voters of the USA) control the ammunition, not the guns.

So, Mr. Hunter ... you want to go out and blast away and murder Bambi? Go right ahead.  It's legal.  Here are your 30 bullets.  But, you better account for every damn one of them and we're going to search you at the end of the day.  You get 30 shots at killing a buck from Milwaukee. If you nail him in three or four, you win a toaster and some steak knives, but you better cough up the 26 or 27 bullets at the registrar, because you're not taking them home in that rifle. 

Okay Mr. Home Owner, you have to own and store a loaded gun to protect yourself against Mr. Big Bad Wolf, go ahead, it's legal. We're just here to say the assault rifles are now classified in the same realm as nuclear arms. So take that into consideration when you define the word "gun" in your N.R.A. handbook, Mr. Heston - oh, excuse me Mr. Cold Hand Luke, the late Mr. Heston, aka, Mr John Carter.

The flow of ammo to gun owners should be about the same as the flow of Plutonium to Mr. Hyde's Eight grade science class.

And, please say a prayer for the souls of these wonderful, innocent children and their brave teachers and administrators, along with so many others gunned down with weapons of destruction, including one of my personnel heroes, John Lennon.

Sandy Hook Elementary School

Virginia Tech

Columbine High School

John Lennon - what's left ...

Sadly, there are many others.

Pressure ...

Pressure is...

Standing over a 12-foot birdie putt on "18" at Augusta National tied for the lead against Tiger,

Returning serve in fifth set tie-breaker at the US Open against Federer,

Taking the mound in the bottom of the ninth of a 2-2 tied world series game at Fenway with the bases loaded, two outs and a 3-balls, no strikes count,

Heading to the line for two shots, down 71-70 at the NCAA Final Four, no time remains on the clock.

Standing at center ice, women's Olympic ice skating finals, you have a lock on the silver, but the gold is within reach... the music is about to begin and you need to skate the performance of your life,

Final turn at Daytona 500, and Jeff Gordon has just bumped your rear fender but you're still in the lead, heading about 210 mph towards the held checkered flag,

Your the goal-keeper, score is tied in the Stanley Cup Finals and you're facing a penalty shot with :03 left in the game.

You are 8 years old and you're about to take the stage at the Met for Cavalleria Rusticana and you are dressed in a long holy communion gown with a burning candle in your hand.  You stare out at the capacity audience for the first time and you have to walk up the steps of the church, an extraordinary set built to scale.  Your stage Mom leads you to the first step and you begin your walk.

You have no money and you need to feed your family, pay the rent or the mortgage.

Pressure.

NASCAR TV commentary ...

Two things:

It was a major crime to have a few guys watching two dogs fight, but it's okay to have hundreds of thousands of people watch a HUMAN driving 175 mph RAM his car into a hard wall and have it roll over and catch on fire. Okay. great.

Secondly, I have never heard such ridiculous commentary in the history of television. They actually said: ... "He hit that wall a ton.." -- No kidding?

Then, without any knowledge of the medical condition of the driver, "well he's moving around in there."