To be delighted that Sainsbury’s have decided not to sell fireworks this year?

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Now just hoping the other supermarkets follow in due course.

Good I hate fire works. Should be licensed displays only

Well, no problem as I will buy them from the usual place anyway.

Every year I look forward to the Fireworks Hate Campaign on our village website which is managed by a couple of dog nuts. And all year I have had to watch my feet on walks, scrape shit off my shoes and put up with barking.

On Firework Night I put on a 45-minute display for my disabled daughter, who loves it. And I love it too, as it feels like I'm getting my own back for all that shit-scraping.

ChardonnaysDistantCousin - The “hate” of fireworks has grown proportionally to the overuse of them.

Thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth.

If everyone who bought fireworks were just setting a few of them off on Nov 5th during the evening while enjoying a family BBQ, NO ONE would be applauding the idea of a ban.

It's not rocket science (see what i did there). As usual the few have ruined it for everyone.

Heard the first ones being set off last night when I was in bed. We will have them going off until after New Year’s Eve now- who are these people who have money to burn?

oops I quite like a neighbourly fireworks display in one of the gardens on Bonfire night. All my local displays have stopped & Battersea is a nightmare as it's so crowded & £11 per adult & children over the age of 11 so not cost effective.

You don’t live in the inner city where idiots are lobbing them at each other.

I love fireworks but hate idiots who set them off from the first day the appear on the shops.

And it’s not the dogs fault - it’s the lazy owners fault.

Don't loads get set off around this time of year due to Diwali?

Well done Sainsburys. I'm so happy to hear this and hope that other supermarkets will do the same in future.

They are so anti-social, and harmful to the environment considering how much debris is often left behind. Not to mention the cost to farmers www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/13929354.rog-woods-farming-diary-fireworks-are-no-fun-for-livestock/

They are often used to terrorise people, a friend had one put through her letterbox last year which started a fire. My dog is utterly traumatised by them and even medication makes little difference. It isn't just one night either, I also hate them because I am autistic and have a phobia of loud bangs, I'm frightened to go out the week or two before and after Bonfire Night. The sooner they are banned from public use the better IMHO.

Very happy to hear it! There was a petition last year to restrict the sale, but the outcome was the usual bullshit 'we have considered and decided the current rules work fine' response.

Honestly the people who would buy from a supermarket hat really want them will go to places like JTF or independent shops where most of the time you can buy display grade fireworks with no checks in.

Sainbos stopping selling won’t make a blind bit of difference.

Residential areas aren't suited to it. Rural areas can be worse ...

Last year random fireworks caused a stampede and panicking horses at the local riding school injured themselves and caused £££ of damage to fences in the process.

Yeah i'm not sure an idiot who throws them at people or through a letterbox will be stopped by Sainsburys lack of offer.

Good for Sainsbury's!

Someone started setting them off across the houses here, arseholes. I worry about the pets, people won't be expecting them and someone's puppy slipped his collar and was run over a year or so ago after being scared.

I like to see them but don't agree with anyone being able to buy them and let them off at any time.

@Wheat2Harvest but it’s not just about dogs,although they are a consideration. It’s about dogs, cats, local wildlife the elderly, small children, and that’s before we get to the fact that people throw them at each other and very few people have the space to let them off responsibly.

Some of them say not for use within 50 ft of the house, who has a garden that size?

An personally I don’t think that it’s the small minority who ruin it, I actually think it’s the majority, because the majority of people who are responsible don’t agree with using them in their back gardens and go to displays instead.

Every year I look forward to the Fireworks Hate Campaign on our village website which is managed by a couple of dog nuts.

No dogs here, but I still detest them. My neighbours 2 doors down set them off and it sounds like it's in my house. Just awful

Well yes, people will always be irresponsible and buy ungraded ones instead, but do we say that about everything we want stopped “no point because it’ll happen anyway through xyz means,”?

Someone has to be the first, and if Sainsburys start, then other supermarkets may follow. If they become unavailable in the supermarkets then that is a step towards getting them banned altogether, and once you have that you can start cracking down more on their use in public places by idiots who won’t be licensed to own them.

People will always find a way to get hold of drugs for instance. Does that mean they shouldn’t be illegal?

YANBU

All of you people who say you love fireworks, just go to an organised display. In an ideal world they'd only be left off on the 5th Novemeber or at New Year but so many selfish people let them off at other times without any cocnern for animals, elderly people, young children, people on the autistic spectrum or ex service people with PTSD to whom the endless loud 'wees' and 'bangs' and flashes cause imense distress.

@stripes23 why not? Pyrotechnics are banned without a licence and council permission where I am from. People would just bring picnic rugs and bring bbqs with them to public displays. Our school does a display where families go and we all have a big bbq as well.

Of all the things I find bizarre about the UK, the whole let’s sell explosives alongside alcohol so that people can get drunk and set them off in their tiny British gardens for three months straight thing by far the strangest. I don’t understand how anyone could objectively find that reasonable.

Oh and the arseholes who deliberately aim them into neighbouring gardens. Just wtf is wrong with people?

Yesterday was the first day they could legally be sold and last night was ridiculous with people setting them off...I don't think they should be for general sale at all and should be limited to organised displays

You can buy them all year round from licensed shops.

Never enjoyed fireworks night because we lived in a house with a thatched roof for many years and had a dog who was scared. So fireworks night was always a stay on guard as so many houses around us had their own displays.

So it holds little joy and we now have cats who are not fans so we stay in with the TV loud. Although one house near us started with fireworks this week and has let them off every night.

I really don't see the problem if people use them responsibly in their own gardens in the few days surrounding bonfire night.

One of my son' was born on Guy Hawkes Day. I could see the bonfires and fireworks during delivery.....Every year we celebrate his birthday by lighting off fireworks. My neighbors hate us