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Should fireworks be outlawed?

Show fireworks be outlawed to the public

  • Yes, they are dangerous and no reason for them

    Votes: 2 3.6%
  • Yes, except allowing government fireworks shows

    Votes: 2 3.6%
  • No, but not within city limits

    Votes: 6 10.9%
  • No, but only adult supervised and purchased

    Votes: 22 40.0%
  • No, not at all

    Votes: 29 52.7%

  • Total voters
    55
I voted "No, but with adult supervision," only because there was no "other" option. I don't think fireworks should be outlawed, but think that some of the bigger, more dangerous ones, should only be purchased by adults 18 or older.




I find this response fairly reasonable, close to what I might have said 60 years ago.
 
Many localities ban fireworks claiming fire and personal safety reasons.
In some places it's a legitimate concern.

Most don't allow them in city limits. Our city allows them anywhere including within city limits, but only certain times of the year. Your opinion? Multiple choice.
Again, some places have legitimate concerns about fireworks. Here, it's definitely a legit hazard. Houses are built close to the main roads, and those things can be a major hazard to drivers.
 
Many localities ban fireworks claiming fire and personal safety reasons. Most don't allow them in city limits. Our city allows them anywhere including within city limits, but only certain times of the year. Your opinion? Multiple choice.

Should driving be outlawed? Would save a lot of lives.
 
From what I'm seeing of the statistics, fireworks are mostly but not entirely harmless.

Fatality and injury rates seem pretty low, but half the injuries are kids under 14. So I'd say kids should not have unsupervised access, and otherwise it's up to the parents.
 
There are tiny firecrackers and sparklers ...and then there are rockets with bombs and true high explosives.
So often , as is done here, they are all lumped in together as though levels of severity had no bearing on what should be restricted and what does not need to be.
... all or nothing thinking.
Many here see the regulation of fireworks as an extension of firearms regulation and respond accordingly espousing similar views that any regulation on any level is bad.
This is wrong minded and illogical thinking.
Let's not forget that the source the Boston Marathon bombers had for their lethal explosives was a fireworks stand in libertarian New Hampshire. He and the Times Square bomber BOTH went to the exact same fireworks store in New Hampshire. Such an unregulated source of black powder is not available in Massachusetts or new York State.
 
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My experience is that most of them usually get what they asked for, one way or another.

Just a sad fact of life.

So why are you arguing against it? It's evolution in action.
 
Don't see the point really. People will just go over the border to Canada or Mexico to buy them, and a black market will be created.

People like fireworks because they're fun, celebratory, and pretty. They won't stop using them, not now. Plus it's pretty rare to see people using them outside of special occasions... they'll get weird stares from people.

On the days when most people are using them, it's called growing a thicker skin. Just deal with it.
 
This is America, and I'm a bleeding heart regulation loving liberal. Fireworks should not be outlawed at all, and anyone of any age should be able to buy them and fire them off anywhere. I love me some fireworks
 
This is America, and I'm a bleeding heart regulation loving liberal. Fireworks should not be outlawed at all, and anyone of any age should be able to buy them and fire them off anywhere. I love me some fireworks




If you are willing to accept the associated injuries, deaths and destruction. get after it.
 
Accidents happen, but far far fewer of them than non-incidents. That is something to keep in mind.




If you buy some fireworks and put a match to them, they will explode.

That is not an accident, that is what fireworks are supposed to do.

Great things for kids to play with, eh?
 
If you buy some fireworks and put a match to them, they will explode.

That is not an accident, that is what fireworks are supposed to do.

Great things for kids to play with, eh?

Yes, they are fine. You just watch and teach them, and decide who is ready for it or not.
 
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Yes, they are fine. You just watch and teach them, and decide who is ready for it or not.




The kids that blow their fingers off probably weren't ready, eh?
 
Ironic that this thread pops up just after someone lit a couple of fireworks so loud, I almost crapped my pants. The stuff they blow off now days wasn't even legal to buy when I was a kid. The biggest thing outside the professional displays were firecrackers, bottle rockets and sparklers.

The kids aren't a problem it's the immature adults with pea brains that overdo it at inappropriate places and times.
 
Ironic that this thread pops up just after someone lit a couple of fireworks so loud, I almost crapped my pants. The stuff they blow off now days wasn't even legal to buy when I was a kid. The biggest thing outside the professional displays were firecrackers, bottle rockets and sparklers.

The kids aren't a problem it's the immature adults with pea brains that overdo it at inappropriate places and times.

I realized what the problem is with most of those fireworks. They are the same fireworks used by professional displays, but the lift charges are much smaller so they don't put them very high in the air before they go off. That's why they're so ridiculously loud, they're going off not that much higher than tree level. And yes, it is almost entirely adults lighting these things off, kids couldn't afford them.
 
I realized what the problem is with most of those fireworks. They are the same fireworks used by professional displays, but the lift charges are much smaller so they don't put them very high in the air before they go off. That's why they're so ridiculously loud, they're going off not that much higher than tree level. And yes, it is almost entirely adults lighting these things off, kids couldn't afford them.

They spend hundreds to literally even thousands of dollars worth in some neighborhoods. And last year before I moved out of my house someone fired off what I can only call "thunder bumpers". They were so powerful the concussive force shook through the entire house and felt like serious military ordinance. Thank goodness they could apparently only afford a few of them but they had to be illegal by even today's standards.

I ask one of my 40yr old male neighbors cackling like a teenage ignoramus what in the hell did he find so interesting about repetitively firing off that many rockets every year? And he replied "Oh, it's not for me it's for the kids." It seems almost a little mentally challenged to find so much joy in such a simple minded act of entertainment on that scale. I mean, I can understand people doing it for 20-30 minutes once or twice a year but for every event imaginable for hours on end?
 
No...they shouldnt be outlawed. Have to say though...when i see the people setting them off I cant help but wonder how many of them have paid for healthcare for their families before they bought that box of fireworks. We used to be OK with sparklers and watching the big city shows. Now...
 
Fireworks are illegal inside the cities around here but most people shoot them off anyway (the Class C or whatever for "normal" use, not those monsters Worlds of Fun and city displays use). Typically, the police will only do something about it on a citizen complaint, obvious stupidity (the middle of the 4-lane is probably a bad place), and in case of accidents and fires for insurance purposes. Noise laws are always in effect 10PM-6AM so anyone can complain about that without complaining about the fireworks themselves, but even that's pretty uncommon. We're pretty laid back in this area but I suppose Yuppieville might be more anal retentive about them.
 
Many localities ban fireworks claiming fire and personal safety reasons. Most don't allow them in city limits. Our city allows them anywhere including within city limits, but only certain times of the year. Your opinion? Multiple choice.

That's like asking me should pissing in the middle of the forest be outlawed. I can see it now.....BREAKING NEWS: " Hiker slips and falls bc of piss found on rock, ban called on pissing in nature". -__-
 
The kids that blow their fingers off probably weren't ready, eh?

Yep. And they will get a cool nickname like "stumpy". Or "tripod".:mrgreen:
 
Many localities ban fireworks claiming fire and personal safety reasons. Most don't allow them in city limits. Our city allows them anywhere including within city limits, but only certain times of the year. Your opinion? Multiple choice.

How many accidents are there with fireworks each year?
 
Sometimes the safety angle is legit. I have lived in areas of the country that are usually very dry in summer and fall, and all it takes is one idiot to misuse fireworks and cause a serious brush fire.

Unfortunately, as authorities and lawmakers are wont to do, they take this legitimacy from some areas and apply it to other areas where this is not a serious concerns.
 
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