Man shoots himself in the head during NASCAR race sponsored by the National Rifle Association (NRA)

[Cali_Democrat]

(CNN) -- A man shot himself to death during the NRA 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend, authorities said.

The 42-year-old from Saginaw, Texas, was at the infield campground during the NASCAR event when he committed suicide Saturday night, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office.

His body was found in the back seat of a truck, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/sport/texas-speedway-suicide/

You just can't make this stuff up.

[rdharma]

1. How is such a thing possible........

...... at an NRA sponsored event?!!

[hack89]

3. How was it possible in a gun free zone? nt

[sylvi]

7. Why wouldn't it be? nt

[CokeMachine]

18. How is it posssible at any event?

I'm sure you can tell us. Until then I'll be bong bonging around the interwebs.

[Straw Man]

2. I'm sure it wouldn't have happened ...

... if the sponsor had been Budweiser.

[gejohnston]

5. drank himself to death maybe

but I would pick a better beer.

[kudzu22]

4. Wait, he didn't massacre fifty people first?

How is that possible? All gun owners support slaughter, right?

[sylvi]

6. I'll bet someone gets a headache

at the Goodys Fast Relief 500, too.

And someone gets low blood sugar at the Coca-Cola 500.

And someone has chest pains at the Bojangles Southern 500.

You'd have a point, if you had a point.

[petronius]

8. Suicide is generally tragic no matter where it happens. His friends and family

must be feeling a great deal of pain and sorrow; I hope it's not exacerbated for them by reading anonymous comments on news articles and across the internet, from people cackling over the event as a plaything in a political argument...

[rdharma]

9. No matter where it happens..........

...... but it's especially embarrassing when it happens at an NRA sponsored event.

[sylvi]

10. Why?

Is it "embarrassing" to NASCAR if a driver dies in a crash not the track's fault, or is it simply a tragedy?

Some of you grab nuts are so anxious to turn any horrific event into some kind of Gotcha Moment that the only people you embarrass are yourselves.

[Starboard Tack]

11. "grab nuts" that's real sexy, Silvi

I do agree that NASCAR is a pretty horrific event, but shooting oneself over it, well...

[gejohnston]

13. if it isn't amateurs on a dirt track

it isn't being done right.

[Starboard Tack]

14. Burning fossil fuels for any reason is sad. Doing it purely for fun is pretty sick.

[sylvi]

16. If God didn't want us to race

he wouldn't have invented the Hemi.

[Starboard Tack]

19. Then maybe we'd have been better off if we hadn't invented God.

[sylvi]

20. Or the flavor, "strawberry-kiwi"

yet here we are.

[ileus]

15. I like seeing the pros on dirt also.

My son and I burned up some petrol on the dirtbikes this weekend.

Looking forward to http://www.allisports.com/motocross/news/2013-lucas-oil-pro-motocross-championship-schedule

in Bristol in June.

[ileus]

12. I can't imagine disliking Kyle Bush that much.

Or maybe it was Jr finishing 29th.

[CokeMachine]

17. What's your point sport?

Just asking -- maybe your don't really have one??? But you may enlighten the rest of us -- probably not but go for it.