Michael Trump

Fireworks and us

October 28, 2007 at 3:00 pm (Uncategorized) (, fire works, fireworks, freedom, independence, loopholes, rights, save our fireworks)

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/oct/24/task-force-hear-fireworks-ban-debate/

The above link is to TBO.com. This article talks about the further ban on fire works.

We have been using fireworks since before our independence from Britain and now all of a sudden people are afraid of them. Fireworks are a part of our culture here in the U.S. and a round the world. But people want to change whose hands are allowed to touch them. There now is even a task force that will help to control our rights to purchase what we want. This is just plain crazy, and should be stopped.

Are most fire works dangerous? Of course they are, that’s why we use them with caution. More people die every year smoking than playing with fire works; street sweepers clean up more cigarette butts every year than firework casings. There are so many people complaining about the fireworks it makes me sick. Have they forgotten how to enjoy themselves? My dog every year is scared to death of the firework shows that happen around town, but guess what she is a dog and though I love her to death I would never complain about the fireworks. If a firework landed on my house and some how burned it down I would be sad but I would not try and stop fire works next year, people shouldn’t be trying to shelter others from harm, give them a warning and say its not safe but don’t try to stop them, and for our government to say “yeah there are a few people who don’t like ’em so lets punish everyone by totally stopping fire works, well we will let them still use sparklers and smoke bombs” are you flicking kidding me. The loophole in our law has been a godsend and should be kept. To limit the fireworks to just licensed people is just another way of being controlled.

Neighbor hood firework shows bring together streets of a neighbor hood; they let people interact when normally they never even wave at each other. We need more today than ever before to get to know who we live near. We need human interaction, and I don’t think a show down at the mall is the answer. You can set up a neighbor hood bar-b-q and no one will show, but on the fourth of July you set up a fire work show with a few of the neighbors and everyone show up for the fun.

In a June 27 news release, the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD)Media Relations Unit noted that in 2003 and 2004, an average of 9,650 people were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for injuries associated with fireworks. Of the 2004 injuries, 85 percent were caused by fireworks that federal regulations permit consumers to use.
http://thedaily.washington.edu/article/2007/7/4/patrioticExplosions

A normal emergency room visit is around $500. That hospital made some money off those people who didn’t play smart with their toys. Injury is an economical pleasure in some ways. A lot of you probably don’t like to hear that but its true.

But facts like these where so many people were injured per year is causing arguments to gain strength, and not helping people who enjoy our freedoms.

If we could ban everything that was harmful to us, this world would be a total mess, well at least America would be. If the loopholes are fixed and fireworks are truly no longer allowed then they should really start to go to hospitals and pull statistics on what is harmful. Then they should start to ban those harmful things like horseback ridding, swimming, campfires, fishing, playing frisbee, smoking, drinking and so on. Don’t shelter us please, the news does that enough.

Fireworks scare horses, of course they do but I don’t hear the horse tracks complaining. I only hear bitter people complaining, probably the people who don’t want to get to know the neighbors, or find ways to reason with them. People who didn’t get invited to firework shows as kids and blame everyone else for it.

Fireworks have injured me in the past. It was nothing that was going to last a life time but still I was stupid and I paid the penalty for it, now I play smarter and I enjoy myself. These lawmakers need to start telling the crybabies of America to shut the hell up and get over them selves. If your neighbor is setting off fireworks and you don’t like it, well go out their and join them, find a way to have a little fun and instead of complaining.
Now my argument may not be well put together and a little disorganized, I apologize for that, this is a matter that really gets under my skin and I would ratter smack people around than try to reason with them on this.

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