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Should fireworks be outlawed?

Motokid

Motokid

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It's 4th of July weekend. Every good pyro's mind in America turns to fireworks. In many states it's illegal to sell, purchase, and set off anything that's considered a firework. In some places, like the state I live in even sparklers are against the law.

I can buy any number af assorted, potentially deadly things in this state and be well within my legal rights. Cars, knives, guns, propane, baseball bats, motorcycles, gasoline.....

Any and all of the above have the potential to permanently disfigure, injure, and kill not just me, but others around me as well.

Some states in this great country of freedom actually allow the sales of fireworks, but don't allow the purchaser to ignite them. What the hell is that all about?

I want to know why I can't buy, and ignite firecrackers, bottle-rockets, roman candles, sparklers, aerial bombs, and other such wonders of pyro-technics...????

Yes people lose fingers,eyes, and hands and other such accidents...and sometimes fireworks are the cause of this, but why is it that fireworks are illegal when so many other things are not?

I want my roman candles damn-it.....

Anybody else feel my pain....?????
 
sorry no pain here, but i hope the 4th is brilliant for you!!! my friend linda is american and she is here so i will have to remember to wish a happy 4th on monday.
 
I love sparklers. They are what really make July 4th happy for me. When I was little, we stuck lots of them in the grass and lit them all at once, so I was surrounded by them. "Just watch them" was the only rule we needed.

And my boy cousins would throw cherry bombs or something like that into the lake, and we would watch the water erupt. Very cool.
 
Your baseball bat, can of gasoline, motorcycle, knives, propane, lawn mowers, pirahna, etc doesn't disturb my sleep for 7 to 12 nights in a two week period.

I'm not too worried about your pirahna or baseball bat burning down my building due to your ignorance or carelessness. But then I worry about smokers burning down the building due to ignorance or carelessness so I don't know how much that counts for anything.
 
Zolipara said:
Because they cause a lot of fires.
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And pollute the air and the mess up the beach and cost a ton of money that could be better spent elsewhere?

As long as there are hungry children in town, I think that fireworks are an incredibly inappropriate waste of many thousands of dollars.

That's what I think.
 
No, I don't feel your pain. Fireworks annoy the heck out of me if they aren't the annual ones that are set off after the 2 week long rodeo/concert thing we have here.

Anything else should be illegal, imo. Well, it is illegal, but it's not enforced here. I've heard bottlerockets going off for the past three weeks, and will continue to hear them going off for another couple weeks. They smell, they're loud (especially when set off after midnight :mad: ), and they scare the crap out of my dogs... not to mention the safety aspect of it.
 
I never really read about fires caused by fireworks. None that I can remember.
Now matches, lighters, cigarettes, gasoline....they cause fires.....

Litter? What about bottles, cans, cigarettes, condoms, food wrappers, newspaper, magazines, plastic cups and styrofoam to name but a few....

Noise? Exhaust pipes, planes, boom-boxes and car stereo's, trucks, trains, construction, kids in general.....
 
Motokid said:
Noise? Exhaust pipes, planes, boom-boxes and car stereo's, trucks, trains, construction, kids in general.....
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Motorcycles and music in the day time don't disturb my night-time sleep. I've never lived close enough to train tracks to be bothered by trains, if there's any night-time construction going on it's no where near where I live, none of the planes that fly overhead are low enough to make enough noise to wake me if I'm sleeping, the occassional noisey Harley going by may wake me but it won't keep me awake. Sorry. Fireworks are the bigger nuisance when it comes to sleeping.

I have heard of fireworks causing fires. Last year someone lost their lake home because the people across the lake didn't have sense enough to know how to properly shoot off fireworks. People are careless with sparklers because they don't consider them actual fireworks and they think they couldn't possibly start a fire. I've heard of kids lighting off bunches of fire crackers at a time and burning down garages. We're not allowed to have them on the property I live on because of some mess with the insurance - something related to fires caused by fireworks.


Noise exists, we shouldn't use that to justify adding to it. Litter exists, we also shouldn't use that to justify adding to it. The neighbors kids run wild: jumping, running, banging stuff against the walls, screaming for fun. That by no means is reason for me to then allow my child to do the same.
 
I'm not saying there shouldn't be some basic restrictions. But it seems pretty damn silly that just about any adult can buy a gun, but can't buy some bottle rockets and roman candles.

Once again we're limiting what the masses can do based on the carelessness and ignorance of a select few.
 
You can take every precaution possible and still cause fires with fireworks. I think there should be more restrictions on guns too.
 
I'd be willing to bet more accidental fires are caused by candles and smokers than from fireworks....
 
So you are actually comparing cooking with fireworks?

If you are think about this:
How many times a day do the average person cook and how many times does he use fireworks? Try and normalise the number of fires caused by the number of meals cooked and fireworks used.

Can you ban cooking and heating?
 
Motokid said:
I'm not saying there shouldn't be some basic restrictions. But it seems pretty damn silly that just about any adult can buy a gun, but can't buy some bottle rockets and roman candles.

Once again we're limiting what the masses can do based on the carelessness and ignorance of a select few.
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Any adult can get a gun, within certain restrictions and expectations.
 
Zolipara said:
http://www.american-firefighter.com/articles/article_2005_06_23_2816.html

Took me 1 sec with google to find this. Maybe it helps.
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Meh. I really think fireworks are dangerous when used by drunk people or the unsupervised children of drunk people. A half dozen of my firefighter friends and I spent a few hours lighting off fireworks last night. They aren't legal in this state, but they are legal in a number of states I drove through on vacation. No fires were started, everyone went home with the fingers they started with. Right now, I'm taking a break from watching my neighbor's display and wondering if the cops will show up.
 
BOOM...crackle crackle.... oohhhh...ahhhhhh !!!!


BOOM BOOM....BOOM!!!!


HAPPY 4th of JULY American's....

BOOM !!!!
 
Hey, Moto, come here, we have NO restrictions on fireworks.
And even if we had - if you wouldn't seriously oppose our beloved President Mr. Putin - you can have your fireworks to all the ends you prefer.

We use them on New Year usually - then all the neighbourhood comes crazy and a week or so almost every person uses fireworks. I've never heard about a fire started by a firework in the vicinity, but I imagine that could easily be the case of fire. But we are kind of careless people, so we do not think much about that.
By the way... That house our terrorists blowed down near the house of my friends... Two years before that we have started rockets on New Year, and one went astray and struck that same house, that was blown two years after... Kind of bad omen, if you ask me...
 
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