https://www.amazon.com/Drafted-Vietnam-David-R-Frazier/dp/0945648227/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1486081077&sr=8-2&keywords=david+frazier

EDITOR NOTE–Anyone who makes a purchase can get me to sign it with just a note in the contact section. Thanks for the plug JJ, hope you enjoy it.

Full disclosure… I grew up in one of the early foothills neighborhoods, surrounded by sagebrush and cheat grass. I also had a bit of “pyromaniac” in me… as do lots of young adolescent boys, I’ve observed. And – the “safe and sane” stands came into existince during my adolescence. (You could almost call it LITERALLY a “powder keg.”) It is only by the grace of God that I didn’t end up torching the foothills, and that I still have all ten fingers and both eyes! (It’s not because of common sense… that’s for sure!)

If a new law will make everybody feel better, by all means pass it! (Maybe put “firing tracer bullets” in there, too!)

“They can have my M-80s when they pry them from my lacerated, smoking, dead fingers!” (-;

EDITOR NOTE–You actually make the point on my behalf. It isn’t the law that works, it’s the denial of access to the fireworks. In my opinion those ARSON KITS also include the S&S stuff as well. In Vietnam they (the communist gov’t.) outlawed fireworks and now people play RECORDED versions of firecrackers for their Tet (lunar new year) celebrations.

Has been 10 years since I bought such fireworks but I remember signing the disclaimer.

Also, when pointing out “those around us who do not have the common sense to provide for such personal freedom” let’s include the property owners lacking common sense to make their OWN defensible space.

If a home is in the urban interface, the property owner has to EXPECT a fire coming through their area. It is THEIR responsibility and should be their cost to reduce or eliminate that risk- not mine, not the fire chiefs, not the Boise Council, not the state legislature.

**Our fire department is very top heavy and very overpaid. Let us solve that problem.

Can’t legislate against stupidity.
The North Idaho legislators always prove that point.

huh?
“urge legislators to make it unlawful to purchase or possess illegal fireworks” – they’re not illegal, if one can currently purchase them.

Should it be “possess [aerial] fireworks”?

In the spirit of one of Trump’s good ideas, with each new regulation, two should be taken off the books, I would like to propose with the ban on certain fireworks the following two laws be repealed:

Open Container Laws: As a society we do not/should not fear someone having a beer at the park, what we do not want is public intoxication, being drunk and disorderly, or being lewd in public, all for which there other laws for sufficient enforcement. The hypocrisy that open containers are ok during a football game but not basketball, or if you have an event and buy a permit like Jaialdi. Funny how buying a permit from the government for a one-time exception happens to make something ok.

Nudity and Alcohol: As we saw with the ridiculous ISP raid on the movie theater that sells beer while showing the movie 50 Shades, ISP seems to enjoy playing the moral police. They are missing their calling and should join the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and walk around with canes and beat people not obeying their version of mortality. While specifically this issue is not a high priority for me or most people, it is the concept of government imposed morality and behavior control of its citizens, even when such citizens are consenting adults on private property.

Oh wait we can’t do that the city of Boise makes money off safe and sane…..

Safe and Sane fireworks…. matches….Fires… Am I missing something?