Las Vegas, Nevada – -(AmmoLand.com)- ‘Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.’ ~ Winston Churchill.
The words are as true today as when Churchill uttered them in 1948 or George Santayana when he originally said essentially the same thing in 1905. Yet, major organizations, those with no stake in politics, are taking political sides and alienating their consumers in the process.
Perhaps the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods was just ignorant of his consumer base or Yeti made a miscalculation when it cut ties with the NRA.
However, when it comes to NASCAR taking an anti-gun approach, it simply baffles the imagination as to who is calling the shots and how out of touch they are with their fan base.
NASCAR chooses Anti-Gun stance
“We just heard from NASCAR on a number of gun-related ads and unfortunately, due to a gradual shift in NASCAR’s position on guns, these ads must be edited/changed—especially those that are depicted as assault-style rifles/sniper rifles. NASCAR is still open to some of the less controversial gun accessories, concealed carry, or classes.”
Consider this, even if your audience was split 50-50 as to the issue of the Second Amendment, why would you intentionally alienate half of your base? Let’s take it to an extreme. What organization wants to intentionally anger even 10 percent of its base? I am sure much more than 10 percent of NASCAR’s fan base is pro-gun, but that seems to be of little import to NASCAR. This is an organization which bragged for years that it was born out of bootleggers running Moonshine. NASCAR’s Winston Cup Series ran for over three decades sponsored by none other than the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
What about the Busch Series? Does NASCAR now view hunting rifles, Modern Sporting Rifles, and even scoped .22 LR rifles as so taboo that they cannot even be depicted in an ad in the official program sold at the races?
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I am not a southerner nor a NASCAR fan but millions of Americans are. If NASCAR turns tail and runs like a democrat then I hope their fans tell them to shove it. I quit watching NFL, NBA and MLB because these people are not athletes they are PRIMA DONA’S. They get paid millions claiming their “sport life” is short due to injuries and need the high slaries. Well T. S. Cemeteries all over the world are filled with Americans who were paid less and gave a hell of a lot more. In this country we have graves filled with… Read more »
It’s ironic that an activity born of and steeped in reckless illegal behavior, that apparently sells and promotes the drug of choice of drunk drivers at it’s events, is now getting on roof of their platform and pointing a finger at someone engaged in a legal and constitutional activity. They are drifting sideways in the wind………
I never really watched a lot of sports, other than NASCAR, in the mid 60’s before it was popular in the North, I went down South and got hooked up with some teams when it was called Grand National Racing, it got bigger and costs were rising. much the same came into effect at the smaller tracks were going under in all parts of the country, it has been hard to take seeing this and now as I have said many times, THIS P/C IS WRECKING THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!! Hunting and Racing was my past time, now… Read more »
Well, I guess that since I no longer shop ar Dicks, I can quit watching NASCAR Races! No longer Watch Pro Football either!
I lost interest in NASCAR when all the cars were nothing more than clones and they changed the race format into three segments. It didn’t help either, when Dodge left racing. NASCAR has become PC like a few other organizations that I don’t support anymore.
NASCAR is making a giant mistake with this anti-gun position.