FIREWORKS ' SHOULD THEY BE BANNED ?

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Every year in the UK. we have the same raised issue of banning f/works ' my self I dont think it could happen -because to much money involved
in it 'should they be only issued to fireworks displays ' or to stop selling them in supermarkets- and local stores ect ………..they are used quite frequently
over here - but saying that the young ones are getting them and letting them off way before guy fawkes night November the 5th ...which does cause animals to be quite terrified -how do you feel about these celebratory displays...…….
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I hate fireworks and they should be banned. Already in the last month some "bombs" have gone off. Seriously it sounded like explosives. Even some neighbors came out of their houses to try to understand what just happened. I hate it for the birds who are trying to sleep in their trees. They have to be terrified. And pets and all animals. Considering people do that stuff already, I dread what it's going to be like on New Year's Eve.
 

yes , they should be banned....they start here mid october, and they will carry on being used until well into the new year...............The animals hate them, and you may as well put a match to your 50 pound note.........The organised displays arnt that bad, as people are well pre warned before hand !!
 
We have the same debates here within the United States and it is a State to State issue here. Some States allow the sale of fireworks and some like the State I live in do not except for the sale of Sparklers. Now that does not stop people from crossing State borders and bringing them back and shooting them off on holidays such as the 4th of July or Memorial Day, but every year there are also several cases of people who have blown fingers off because of mishandling of fireworks. I don't really know what the answer is to this question. I know in my personal case every 4th of July I let the professionals handle the fireworks and I enjoy watching them at the beach.
 
Yes, explosives are for killing people not playing with.

As one who spent a lifetime making sure things went off, or the didn't (Inwas an armourer in the military for forty years) I saw more people injured by "fireworks" (in peacetime) than I ever did by operational explosives.
 
If people want fireworks, let them have them. I've seen enough, shot off enough, to last a lifetime.

Janet and I saw the fireworks display to end all others: We were checked into a hotel where the fireworks launch pad was less than two city blocks away. We were on the fourteenth floor. The fireworks were right outside of our window. When they spread, they engulfed our hotel.

It was amazing beyond belief, but I have a feeling it was dangerous, too, because it never happened, again. We called, every year, got lame excuses, and gave up.

After that, subsequent displays were anticlimactic.
 
I agree. Ban them. When I was growing up all you could buy in Florida was sparklers. And of course the city would have a show on the night of the 4th, but that was it. But now it's like shock and awe over Baghdad every 4th of July and New Years and it starts days before and after it's over you hear left overs being set off for a week. Here in Mobile they have an ordinance that bans them within the city limits. Which is completely ignored as there is zero enforcement.
 
Here, so called safe and sane fireworks are legal, things like fountains and sparklers. I have no problem with them. Piccolo Petes make a noise but tolerable. The problem is that every fourth of July, and for weeks before and after, massive bombs and rockets are going off. A few people with a truck or garage full of illegal stuff will get arrested, but they are a drop in the bucket.

The police claim that they look for violators, but the results are not very apparent. I suspect they give a lot of warnings, which are ignored. I think the only way to really stop or at least reduce it would be to make it a serious offence with a large fine and maybe some jail time. But, the courts are already overloaded and I don't expect to see that any time soon.

Don
 
I think private use of fireworks should be banned. There are enough missing fingers & eyes to justify a ban. Organized fireworks shows are OK, but there have also been tragedies at them; though much less frequently.
 
There was an actual death here. A husband and wife filled a barrel with a lot of fire crackers and some other explosives and when it went off the husband was badly injured and the wife died.
 
I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly of fireworks. I’ve been called to people’s homes after a firework accident and have seen their fingers blown off, people becoming temporarily blinded and one small child that with bare feet who stepped on a ground explosive toy (tank) in an attempt to put it out and ended up with having his big toe hanging by a thread because it exploded.

In Pennsylvania, residents may own and use small consumer grade fireworks like; firecrackers, bottle rockets and some ground toys as long as they all stay at or under the 50 milligrams of explosive materials threshold. Personally, I would rather just see us allow only professionals to handle fireworks.
 
Yes let's ban everything that gives any enjoyment. Let's ban cars because people are killed in accidents. Let's ban aircraft because they may crash. Let's ban any sport where someone might get hurt. There were times in the past that even Christmas was banned. But of course don't ban firearms, they're (forgive me if I'm wrong) enshrined in the constitution.
 
I enjoy professional fireworks displays and I think that they have entertainment value.

I also believe that fireworks should be left to the professionals and the sale/use of fireworks for the general public should be banned.

We have laws against public use of fireworks where I live but like so many laws on the books, the police don't enforce them. The most they do is cruise the neighborhoods and stop every now and then to issue a warning. IMO it's a waste of time and money to have the laws on the books if the police are not going to enforce them.
 
I'm okay with or without them. I agree with some who said if you've seen one fireworks display you've seen them all.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Yes let's ban everything that gives any enjoyment. Let's ban cars because people are killed in accidents. Let's ban aircraft because they may crash. Let's ban any sport where someone might get hurt. There were times in the past that even Christmas was banned. But of course don't ban firearms, they're (forgive me if I'm wrong) enshrined in the constitution.
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The problem with fireworks (as I see it) is that they don't appear to be as dangerous as they are, especially the way they're packaged. I think young people don't associate them with serious permanent injury. When I played with them as a child, I thought of them as "fun" not danger.
A firearm looks like something that can kill.
 
My biggest fear about fireworks is fire. There are a lot of pine trees around our area and, this time of year you get pine straw on everything. People across the street always set their fireworks off in the middle of the street, aimed away from their trailer and above my house and my adjoining lot.

I have seen enough of fireworks to know you can aim them one way but they can turn, flip over or fizzle out. I know a child who permanently lost her eyesight when her father set off fireworks in front of their lake and one flipped over and went straight into his daughter's eyes. Stuff happens.

My nephews got some in their hands and were shooting them off by themselves at 8:00 in the morning. Granted, the two older ones were in their teens, but obviously didn't have enough maturity or brain cells to think it through.
 
Janet and I saw the fireworks display to end all others:

I doubt the guys on Omaha Beach would agree with that, or those that saw Schweinfurt .
 

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