To believe that fireworks shouldn’t be available to the general public?

[FatNoMorePat]

Fireworks at this time of night!!!

I’m partial to a sparkler don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t agree with fireworks being readily available for joe public. Particularly when people let them off after 11pm!

I’m not saying get rid of them all together but make it stricter so they’re only let off in safe environments by people who’ve had adequate training who then clean everything up and it’s all done and dusted before 11pm.

Am I getting old??

Oh gosh get a grip. Avoid Spain during St Juan, kids as young as 7-8 are playing with fire crackers in the street... Fully supervised. It's tradition and it's fun!

Totally agree, I'm sick of hearing fireworks close to my house.

Agree OP.

After narrowly missing being hit by fireworks some idiot decided to let off in a bin in the centre of Blackpool a few years ago for a joke, I wholeheartedly agree with you OP.

I love fireworks, but I get sick of brainless idiots setting them off as they please for weeks surrounding the 5th. A family who's house backs onto ours set them off every night last week - I walked past one night and their ypung kids were standing about 3 feet away from where they were letting them off, have no idea how nobody has been hurt. Same dad of said family decided to run about last week in a terrifying clown mask and knock on peoples' doors - its not an area where people are friendly with their neighbours, he was just being a knob.

We don't have animals but I've seen how it can affect them. It should be kept to organised displays only.

I absolutely, 100% I agree.

We should have the same laws as R.I and N.I where you have to get a licence to buy them.

I find it utterly ridiculous that anyone who feels like it can buy explosives on the high street completely unrestricted.

I love fireworks but they should not be available to the general public.

Agreed and have been saying it for years! Fireworks are beautiful in the right environment but they are glorified bombs.

I agree. I love bonfire night, it's one of my favourite nights of the year but I never get to go to displays because there's so many let off round here in the weeks leading up to it that my dogs gets hypersensitive and freaks out, she's pretty old now and if she tried to bolt upstairs or something she could easily injure herself.
I wish they picked a night to hold displays. That way we'd know what date to batten down the hatches as it were.

(I do love buying a pack of sparklers and having some mulled wine every year though!)

Yanbu.
Organised displays only. Fireworks really shouldn't be in back gardens.

Fireworks are a celebration of the history of this country, a few people are arseholes I know but I'm sick of the attitude that if a few people are naughty we'll punish everyone

Why is it a punishment to restrict or ban the sale of explosives?

YANBU OP

@spanishwife it's not fun for veterans or people that have lived in war torn areas or young children, animals or people with additional needs

I also think hardly anyone should be allowed to own a dog either

Totally agree with you, Judas.

YANBU, too many stupid people these days. You should need a license

I think they need to tighten the law as to who buys them and when they can be let off. The big organised displays round here started last weekend and are way louder than the ones in supermarkets. If you were only allowed to set them off on a set weekend then someone setting them off on their own land would just be part of the noise coming from the local display.

Fireworks are a celebration of the history of this country, a few people are arseholes I know but I'm sick of the attitude that if a few people are naughty we'll punish everyone

Don't see it as punishing, see it as keeping safe. As well as myself almost being hurt by an idiot's actions I also know someone whose husband was hit in the face by a stray firework that he had lit at his home. He's a very sensible man and probably followed all the instructions but something went horribly wrong. They are explosives!

There is a direct correlation between people who buy fireworks and people who are scum. They should definitely be for organised displays only. Someone who lives near me had a lit firework put through their letter box by some teenage boys on Halloween - these kids don’t seem to realise that could mean them facing a murder charge!

I agree OP but I am probably influenced by the fact I live in an area you see on the news, little shits throwing them into people's cars when they are at traffic lights and such. I used to think you can't ban them because of a couple of idiots but it's ridiculous now.

Poor woman on halloween night got caught in the middle of them with a newborn baby in a pram! And was only 5.30 in the evening on a main road!

Completely agree. They're basically home explosives and considering some of the population lacks some serious common sense then the two combined are a recipe for disaster.

Organised public displays I'm fine with but back garden shows definitely not.

A friend of a friend's little girl was seriously injured two years ago when at a home display, the firework went sideways into her, got caught in her scarf and exploded into her face. She had to have massive skin grafts and the video her mum released to warn others was harrowing. Ever since I watched it it's just rammed home to me that they're really not safe

I think YABU. Yes, I'm biased as I love fireworks (turn into an ooh'ing, ahh'ing and generally over excited child) but I cannot abide the idea that because some people are arseholes with an item, the item should be banned. Deal with the person.

YADNBU!

The general public as a whole are too stupid to be allowed to buy fireworks.

There was a tweet yesterday from a police force looking for information on people who had aimed fireworks at A BLIND LADY AND HER GUIDE DOG

Totally agree. Should be for licensed events only, used only by trained operatives, with the public and any residential housing a safe distance away. And only on bonfire night and new year!

There's already very strict laws on when they can be sold etc, so im unsure.

Should we ban something because some idiots behave badly? Because that means lots of things couod be banned.

However yanbu in the fact of people are really scared of them, it harms animals and they're used anti socially. So im torn on the idea, as usual

Lil, the basics of firework law are

not on the highway
not in public places
not after midnight except for Nov 5th, NYE, Diwali and maybe some other dates

But you try getting Plod to do anything about it - they don't want to know.

In the bonfire season (which in East Sussex is Sept-late November), I accept it as the price of living in a lovely county, but I get hacked off with a local hotel that offers a firework display as part of its wedding reception package.

It can be a balmy summer evening, sitting out in the garden with a G&T, and all of a sudden it's like D-Day with huge bangs blasting away.

It's made me spill my drink more than once.

I'd like to see a rule that anyone having a firework event outside of November needs to apply for a licence and give wide publicity, so people can go elsewhere if they live in the area.

Fireworks are a celebration of the history of this country, a few people are arseholes I know but I'm sick of the attitude that if a few people are naughty we'll punish everyone
Massive punishment to want to limit the sale of explosives.
Isn't the ' but you're trying to punish us all' one of the arguments used against changing gun laws?
Stuff safety, I want things that go boom!

OP
I agree. It should be licenced sale and only with an approved display point (or something like that).
It scares me that people let them off in their back gardens and some back gardens aren't as big as the safety gaps required at professional displays.

Totally agree with you