Please help in the fight to keep Fireworks legal. Please write your congressman, call your local government office and beat up a liberal. Let's stand united in the fight for true freedom in our great land.

FIREWORKS RULE!!!

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They're technically illegal here, but I have yet to see somebody arrested while shooting off 2" diameter bottle rockets.

I'm for fireworks.

But before you spout off like that, imagine yourself waking up on July the 5th to find that there are spent fireworks littered all over your yard. Or worse yet, how would you like to find your house or property accidentally set on fire due to fireworks?

I'm for fireworks too...but where I live, even snaps are illegal cause they're a "Firehazard" :rolleyes:

While I'm all for letting people blow themselves up if they want to, I'm very much against them blowing me up in the process, so I don't have any problem with fireworks laws. Although the whole deal where you can buy them as long as you promise not to use them in the state is completely retarded. If they're unsafe, ban them. If they're not, don't. But don't pretend like you're banning them and then happily accept all of the tax money. Stupid government.

I am for the fireworks, even though we had a bad experience with them years ago when my son was a baby. We went to a comunity outing in town and it was dark. We were waiting for the fireworks in town to start. It must have been a teenager or something, but the next thing you know, someone threw a lit firework in my son's stroller. He was in his stroller when this happened!!! Luckily my husband was able to get it out before it blew up in his face!

Now we just celebrate at home.

-barbara

Originally posted by LionelHutz
But don't pretend like you're banning them and then happily accept all of the tax money. Stupid government.

I agree with that statement!

-barbara

Very good point, Lionel

I've bought my share of fireworks over the years. Got to be near a ton of pyrotechnics by now. I've seen plenty of idiots hurt themselves & others through their behaviors, - some malicious, others just plain ignorant.

Call it strengthening the gene pool. If you think its a good idea to look down a 4'' barrel of a launcher because the rocket didnt go off, then maybe we r better off.

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Shane died five years ago when he tried to launch a mortar -- a legal firework.

It exploded prematurely in his face.

"The canister was hot and ignited the powder around the firework so it exploded when he wasn't expecting it to," Glenda Lynch said.

Every Fourth of July, Lynch makes a personal warning about the dangers of even legal fireworks.

This year, she caught people's eyes. Her parents paid $300 for a bold and graphic memoriam in the Sunday Seattle Times obituaries -- a page normally reserved for kind, compassionate words.

Laws against fireworks are excellent examples of safety legislation gone too far. How's the Ben Franklin quote go again? "Those who sacrifice a lot of freedom for a little safety derserve neither freedom nor safety"?

This is just another version of Prohibition....instead of alcohol, it's fireworks. Well, I've got news for the legislators involved: a lot of fun is worth a little risk to your safety.

I like the story book in the movie Along Came Polly. With the bloody picture of the kid holding his stump of his arm standing next to a box of fireworks. Morale of the story, be careful.

Anyways, fireworks are fun. Blowing things up... hehehe. City run fireworks suck, they're boring. Mostly just because it's not I that is making the exploding.

Originally posted by Leper
Laws against fireworks are excellent examples of safety legislation gone too far. How's the Ben Franklin quote go again? "Those who sacrifice a lot of freedom for a little safety derserve neither freedom nor safety"?

This is just another version of Prohibition....instead of alcohol, it's fireworks. Well, I've got news for the legislators involved: a lot of fun is worth a little risk to your safety.

Well put Leper;

Maybe we should ban the following; casual driving, swimming, using any type of power tool, hot coffee{or any hot beverage}, mowing our lawns, eating and talking{at the same time}, bicycles, hot tubs, any type of amusement park. Well There is a start, these "save our own a**" laws are getting WAY out of hand.