[carrrnuttt]

Since I don't feel like writing up whole new statement for an old, tired discussion, I will just quote myself from another OLD thread. It was in reply to another person that came in with just about the same attitude as you, except he was a bit more tactful about it, and even had a website to preach from.

Originally Posted by carrrnuttt

I hear ya and feel where you're coming from. This is one of the reasons I hardly ever go to street meets anymore. I have gone to maybe three-four in the last 11 years. Even if I go, I never drive my own car for two reasons: one, I don't want my car impounded, which can happen even if I'm not racing. Two, I don't want to get tempted or goaded into a race, which can happen.

Fact of the matter is, this racing thing will never go away, especially with the current crop of cheaper, faster cars. Instead of chasing racers down, ticketing them, throwing them in jail and whatnot, which costs the taxpayers a lot of money, despite the fines being levied, law-enforcement should build free/cheap tracksites that can stay open when others aren't. I am sure a lot of people will volunteer to help maintain this place, including the cops themselves. I know a few officers that were/are racers themselves. Besides that, people doing community-service as recompense can work at this hypothetical track too.

It will never happen though. Cities and Police Departments are too caught up in the politics of "being tough on crime" to even consider doing something like this. By doing so, they're simply pushing the adrenaline-and-gas soaked car "tuners" towards this "organized" chaos.

Even before cars, people have raced. On foot. On animals. How do you think the quarter-mile race came about? That distance was the most common distance used when straight-line racing a horse.

This impulse to compete will always be in everybody. Some, more so than others. Even you I am sure. But not everybody has your insight or common sense.

I am telling you this because I see that you have a whole website to preach from, and maybe one of these days you can point your preaching to the other side too.

On a side note, street/track racing deaths combined don't even come close to what accidental and deliberate gun deaths have wrought. I doubt if casual gun ownership (which can be akin to casual street-racing as opposed to driving to get somewhere) will be outlawed anytime soon in this country, if the NRA has anything to say about it. I know this argument is kind of petty, but it is something to think about.