This is what it all comes down to. I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks our country and state’s governments are out of control these days. Sure they do some good things now and then, and yes, we do need some laws in place for truly important matters, but there has to be some point (hopefully anyway!) when you liberal jokers will decide to finally draw the line with this nonsense. Banning everything that might possibly become a problem for someone on our planet and just giving the gov. officials the green light for whatever kooky ideas they come up with (or someone comes up with for them) is exactly what got us in our current mess in the first place. We need to put our feet down and stand our ground at some point and say enough is enough. Stop trying to ban everything in sight, stop trying to pass new laws that are not really important and start using some reason in your thinking!

Just sit back at home or go to the park tomorrow and enjoy the fireworks. I know that some of you pissy old people can’t manage to wrap your minds around the idea of actually having a good time and enjoying yourselves, but heck, it’s the 4th of July…you know…the day we CELEBRATE our independence….so just do all of us and yourselves a favor and try to enjoy some fireworks whether they be in the park or on your street from Joe Shmoe that brought that truckload of biggies in from Wyoming to shoot them off down the street. Hopefully he won’t aim them at your precious cedar shaker roof that’s a damn safety hazard in the first place and just begging to spontaneously combust and cause a house fire on a hot day. If you’re nervous about it, have your hose on the ready grandpa.

Otherwise, stay home in your basement to pout and worry yourself to sleep with ear plugs on so you don’t have to listen to the big scary bang-bangs outside. Stay out of the hair of We The People who actually get some pleasure out of life and don’t want you trying to get “OUR” government to tell us what you want us to do and not do.

Same arguments, a lot of fishermen litter and leave big tangles of fishing line along the banks. Some have been known to drink and kill people while driving home. Fishermen also often have to travel lone distances, this pollutes the environment and drives up gas prices for everyone else.

I say that fishing should be limited to the trained professionals that appear on TV fishing shows and we can all just watch them. I’ll fire off a couple of mortars this 4th for you Dave! 🙂

In all seriousness, allowing the selling of fireworks that are illegal in the state is like allowing pot to be sold by licensed dealers as long as the buyers sign a form that says they’ll go to Amsterdam to smoke it.

As for banning fireworks — yeah, it’d stop them for sure. Just like prohibition stopped booze, laws against murder stopped homicides, laws against burglaries keep everybody’s possessions safe, and no woman ever has to fear rape again, cuz it’s illegal, right?

Oh, well. If we obey the ban on firecrackers, for example, it’s not too serious. We can still make loud noises. 12-gauge shotguns, .357 handguns, etc., are legal, and make really fun noises.

Or, go to any mining area, and it’s pretty easy to pick up a few sticks of dynamite (as kids, we used to steal them from a mine, cut them in half, put a cap and fuse in each half, light’ em and throw ’em. Better booms than cherry bombs, even!
Molotov cocktails were fun, too. And fill a large can with water, seal it up and pop it with a .30-30, and see what happens.

Bans just make people more creative (as in bathtub gin, moonshine, etc.).

So it doesn’t much matter.

EDITOR NOTE–Explore their site http://nationalfireworks.org/index.shtml it appears they have positions on imports and hold an influential seat on regulatory agencies. They are taking on the NY legislature among others.

Prohibition has never worked, for anything. You might as well try to ban people.

I have a rule for myself – never blog after more than three drinks. Usually works, not always. Although I do think I’m more creative after two.

Back to the subject at hand:

We sometimes have someone set off a few fire crackers in our street, which are legal, but someone in the neighborhood gets the big ones. We still have cedar shake roofs in our area and it can get scary, not to mention noisy.

So, John Q. Public buys a trunk-load of bombs and rockets, signs a bogus form (that has no basis in law) that says he’s going out-of-state to shoot off his arsenal of pyro, then takes them home in the City, County or where ever.

On the night of the 4th, enforcement people are outnumbered 5,000 to 1. There is no possible way for enforcement to make a dent. This problem will never get better until the Legislature grows a set and stops giving in to the fireworks industry lobby.