Fireworks laws

[GregTheGreat657]

Mods, if this is the wrong board, please feel free to move this

Personally, I am a libertarian on fireworks laws

[If my soul was made of stone]

I support Maryland's strict fireworks laws because without them I wouldn't have had the liquid adolescent excitement of driving up Interstate 83 with my stepfather into the Baltimore supercommuter part of Pennsylvania, a state with far less regulation thereof, to patronize one of the myriad fireworks stores around there advertised heavily along that highway that exist to cater to those in our situation. jao

[Dr. MB]

Should be legal and unregulated. Some people hate fun

[dead0man]

As an older adult I find the practice to be really stupid.  As a child, teen and young adult, who definitely had some pyromaniac tendencies, I loved it all.

(never mind the ironic stupidity of sending Red China <looks it up> $2BILLION!/year to blow stuff up colorfully to celebrate our freedom)

Like hard drugs, they should be legal, but generally discouraged.

[John Dule]

The problem is that fireworks, even when stored properly and used non-negligently, can pose a serious threat to the lives of others-- at least in states like my own, where the smallest spark can precipitate billions of dollars worth of fire damage. I don't support banning them, but they should be treated as any other potentially hazardous incendiary device.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Tasmania used to have Guy Fawkes night.

In 1985 you bought $20 worth of poha's and rockets and then went out on the night.

Eventually kids lost their eyes and Greek grandmothers got harassed because they chased boys down the street with a rolling pin yelling "I kill you, i kill you".

So more boys fired rockets at her house. Then her house became an annual pilgrimage of 30 adolescent males launching rockets at her house to get her to come out and chase people again.

They were the DeSantis household. I never fired rockets at their house, but I did have to run when she came out, and I was 80m away.

It was mayhem.

[Schiff for Senate]

America doesn't need these, but India most certainly needs regulations on fireworks/crackers. The amount that are blown up on Diwali and the resulting smoke the next several days is crazy, unbearable, and honestly environmentally unstable. When I lived in India, every winter I inevitably ended up with a very nasty cough. Hasn't happened since my family moved here.

Now regarding fireworks in America (which I think is what Greg was talking about in the OP), personally really don't think there's much of a problem.

[Donerail]

legality of fireworks should be directly tied to current vegetation moisture at the time of sale, i.e. totally in Hilo or Miami but death penalty in parts of the west