Should fireworks(public sales) be banned?

#26
#26
In the county where I live fireworks are officially on the books as being illegal to use. However the police department uses the "honor system" with residents and as long as you are using them responsibly, they turn a blind eye. The truth of the matter is, its an unenforcable law because too many people ignore it. However it gives the police a legal leg to stand on in case they have to go after someone who is being an idiot with fireworks. You still cant sell them in my county but so many neighboring counties can, getting fireworks is no problem at all.

Now do I personally think they should be banned? No way! Like someone else said, I'm a strong believer in Darwinism.
 
#27
#27
My old neighbors would fire them off all the time. As in Tuesday nights in February at 1030 pm. Meanwhile I have to wake up at 4 am. They'd leave the waste that always landed in my yard and complain about the pine cone in the road from my pine tree. So glad they moved two months ago.

I don't mind them in certain situations, but +1 being annoyed at firing them off all the time.
 
#28
#28
It's illegal in Blount county but on the 4th the fireworks show in my subdivision is impressive. I usually don't buy any, just watch other people's money go boom.

The cops never gave anyone problems until last year, coincidentally after I got new next door neighbors. This year I plan on doing my patriotic duty and blowing up a few hundred bucks. 😎🇺🇸
 
#30
#30
Absolutely not. I have so many fond memories of shooting fireworks off with my family as a kid. Just be responsible
 
#33
#33
Fireworks are a perfect example of burning money, if people wanna burn money, let them burn money.
 
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#34
When I was in high school I drove up in front of a friend's house where they were shooting off fireworks. As I pulled up I leaned a bit out my window to holler hey and saw the bottle rocket just in time to duck back. It came in the driver window and landed in the passenger floor where my buddy riding shotgun stomped frantically at it till it exploded and filled my car with stinky smoke.

I actually thought it was funny as all hell but had to quickly jump out and help restrain my raging mad buddy. And then it was even funnier.

Even with that it never occurred to me that fireworks should be banned but now, decades later and in SoCal, I look at a fireworks stand and then to the horizon behind it at the column of smoke from the latest wildfire and shake my head.
 
#35
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pismonque said:
When I was in high school I drove up in front of a friend's house where they were shooting off fireworks. As I pulled up I leaned a bit out my window to holler hey and saw the bottle rocket just in time to duck back. It came in the driver window and landed in the passenger floor where my buddy riding shotgun stomped frantically at it till it exploded and filled my car with stinky smoke.

I actually thought it was funny as all hell but had to quickly jump out and help restrain my raging mad buddy. And then it was even funnier.

Even with that it never occurred to me that fireworks should be banned but now, decades later and in SoCal, I look at a fireworks stand and then to the horizon behind it at the column of smoke from the latest wildfire and shake my head.
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#36
#36
If there's a wildfire threat that changes everything, it's too dangerous for public safety at that point.
 
#37
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pismonque said:
When I was in high school I drove up in front of a friend's house where they were shooting off fireworks. As I pulled up I leaned a bit out my window to holler hey and saw the bottle rocket just in time to duck back. It came in the driver window and landed in the passenger floor where my buddy riding shotgun stomped frantically at it till it exploded and filled my car with stinky smoke.

I actually thought it was funny as all hell but had to quickly jump out and help restrain my raging mad buddy. And then it was even funnier.

Even with that it never occurred to me that fireworks should be banned but now, decades later and in SoCal, I look at a fireworks stand and then to the horizon behind it at the column of smoke from the latest wildfire and shake my head.
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I dated a girl who had never shot any kind of fireworks. I lit a Roman candle and handed it to her, she got scared and turned to hand it back. As she did, it went off, and rolled up my lip, nose, and eye. Burnt me pretty good, and I have a scar under my mustache, eyebrow, and one on my nose.
 
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Biopsyman said:
Rather have the individual burn their money then the local government through taxes to pay for fireworks
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From an economic standpoint, it's one of the few things the government should pay for. The whole justificationcation for government provided goods and services is that the market under-provides. Because fireworks are non-rival and non-excludable, unlike most all goods and services, they are under provided.
 
#42
#42
Fireworks are legal where I live from the 1st to the 4th at certain hours. Never shot fireworks myself for the 4th but always did with family on Christmas Eve.
 
#44
#44
I can understand banning them 99% of the year, but i think it should be legal to use on the fourth of July.
 
#45
#45
It's not that I mind fireworks this time of the year. But I'm seriously trying to figure out why people are shooting them off at all hours during the daylight.

It's still light out and some yahoos are firing them off down the road. Not little ones either, but the big ones.
 
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Grand Vol said:
It's not that I mind fireworks this time of the year. But I'm seriously trying to figure out why people are shooting them off at all hours during the daylight.

It's still light out and some yahoos are firing them off down the road. Not little ones either, but the big ones.
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I believe the mystery you're looking for is "alcohol".
 
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#47
#47
My old hood turned the 4th into an arms race to the point that it rivalled the show the city was putting on. Cops usually came by but were cool about it. I don't mind people shooting them off provided it isn't dry as dust.
 
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#49
It's only the 2nd, but my kids are all up and my pooch's hair is on end from the premature celebration...
 
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kiddiedoc said:
It's only the 2nd, but my kids are all up and my pooch's hair is on end from the premature celebration...
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the premature celebration I know ends with everything laying back down quicker than you'd expect
 
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