A fan was shot in the face outside the University of Phoenix Stadium before the preseason game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Oakland Raiders.
A 30-year-old man was shot in the face during an altercation in a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium Friday night while the Arizona Cardinals took on the Oakland Raiders.
Glendale police say the incident occurred around 9:30 in the ‘purple’ parking lot near the Hampton Inn.
The shooter claimed it was just an accident. Stuff happens, you know.
Still, I guess we can only blame Arizona’s highly restrictive gun laws — oh wait, they have some of the most lax regulation of firearms in the country. My bad.
Still, clearly the solution to this problem is more people with more guns at sporting events, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls, churches, and other places large crowds of liquored up people congregate. If the man who was shot at the Cardinals-Raiders game, or his friends, had been carrying this all might have been prevented. Not that I know he and his friends weren’t carrying mind you, but since no one returned fire one must assume they are all panty waists and too cowardly to exercise their second amendment rights by bringing their guns to an American football game.
In fact, maybe the NFL could have a gun promotion day where all ticket buying fans would be given a free handgun and a box of ammo as they enter the stadium. I’d be willing to bet Smith and Wesson, Colt, GLOCK and Beretta would be only too happy to co-sponsor such an event. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
After all, we can’t continue to have these shooting incidents at football games. As I see it, some drunk loudmouth at a tailgate party carrying a concealed .38 will think twice before shooting me or my rowdy friends in the face if he sees my trusty .357 Sig in its holster by my side. Don’t you agree?
There was also a shooting this morning at Illinois State U.
It happened at 3 am this morning, I haven’t been able to find any real details other than that, yet.
Lot’s of shootings. It’s our right after all.
Google “shooting” and click on news.
Football is so yesterday anyhow. We should forget the football and reuse the stadiums for the Yellow and Gray teams shootout bowls. NRA members get a chance to be part of the Death Olympics, where they are licensed to kill members of the oposite team. Great advertising opportunity for Koch Industries, Chic fil a, Fox, et al, as the excitement builds up for the Last Man Standing event, the winner of which wins a plastic encased dead liberal.
Careful. The Stars Earn Stripes producers are watching.
Can we hope for Darwin awards?
I’m beginning to think that this issue needs to be discussed in terms of the issues that Susan Faludi raises in Stiffed: the Betrayal of the American Man. And no, she is not talking about the American Woman.
American culture made four implicit promises to men after World War II. Faludi’s book is about how each and every one of those was betrayed by the 1970s. And how men responded through the 1980s and 1990s. And the social movements that arose trying to use that betrayal to co-opt the support of men.
Awww man…why don”t you just include it s some kind of wildcard in your fantasy football things? Say a 1% chance that some football player will either be in the line of fire or holding the smoking gun himself. I mean…make it real, this fantasy thing!!! A 1% chance that there will be a suspension for performance-enhancing drug use. More like a 5% chance that a player will be busted for drugs, DUI. weapons charges and/or fighting/beating up on members of any and all 7 sexes as long as they are smaller/weaker/slower than he is.
C’mon, man!!!
Let’s take it big time, why don’t we?
I can see it now.
Oh.
Wait a minute.
What’s that you say?
It’s already in operation, this game?
In the so-called “real” world?
Oh.
Nevermind.
Your freind,
Emily Litella
Stunned by such gun violence …
I had a couple of dozen friends/family at that game. The ones I spoke to said that the crowds were rowdy from the start of tailgating. The Raiders have a big fan base in Az since the Cardinals are (relatively) new to the area. The only unity you’ll find at a game like that is in everyone’s hatred of the Cowboys 😉
My God. Can you imagine MORE GUNS at an Auburn/Alabama game?
2 years ago a man killed his uncle because the uncle defended the referee that had ruled an intercepted pass as being incomplete. I will admit, the ref was blind, but still, to shoot your uncle 6 times with a bolt action 25-20 is a little much.