Why are fireworks legal?
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Anonymous
| It sounds like the Iraq war in our neighborhood. We are afraid to go outside because morons are setting off small bombs in the alley |
Anonymous
They are illegal in a lot of places. We have just stopped enforcing the law. |
Anonymous
| Cuz they’re cool to look at and hear. Stop being a wuss. |
Anonymous
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So trashy
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Anonymous
| Because even low class people need some entertainment. |
Anonymous
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DC is weirdly laissez faire about 1.developers and 2. Fireworks
Developers can do anything they want and the city will back them to the hilt And if a fourteen year old blows his hand off with fireworks, the city says, well that’s on him and his parents |
Anonymous
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We defunded the fireworks police. Sorry Karen, you’ll just have to deal with it for a couple weeks.
Or you can move back to wherever you came from. Bye Felicia! |
Anonymous
| Decriminalize fireworks! |
Anonymous
Weird, because without developers, you wouldn’t be posting this from your $700k U street condo with reclaimed hardwood and concrete countertops that was built after the black families who lived there before got gentrified out of the neighborhood. |
Anonymous
+1! No fireworks, No peace!!! |
Anonymous
| Fireworks are legal because they’re fun, and reasonably safe when used by a responsible person. The idea that some governmental agency has to keep everyone in a bubble of safety, regardless what the individual wants, is pathetic. |
Anonymous
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I agree that it's totally insane that you can buy them legally just about everyplace.
Back before they used to have security checkpoints at the mall fireworks, I almost got hit in the face with a really big firework. Drunk idiots were setting them off in the middle of the crowd, and weren't smart enough to set the trajectory right. The Park Police kept riding around on their horses trying to get to people after they saw the flare, but of course by then the drunks had moved on to another location. They're not even made in the US anymore, so we can go ahead and ban them without worrying about the impact on American jobs. |
Anonymous
Only for the people setting them off. There was a group of idiots setting them off in our alley last night around 2am, mere feet from our bedroom window and I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off in my backyard. It's not about being a wuss, it's about expecting just the smallest amount of respect and consideration from my neighbors. |
Anonymous
| So we can help the Chinese economy. |
Anonymous
| It beats shooting guns off at midnight. |