@sleepycoffeemonster
I don't see why private sale fireworks should be banned but tight restrictions on when they should be set off ie fireworks night only between 6pm and 9pm, maybe new years eve.
As usual it the anti social dickheads that ruin something fun for everyone. I dont know why people cant be more mindful of others around them these days.
There
are restrictions on when you can buy and set them off, but they're completely ignored and therefore not working are they?
Not supposed to be after 11pm or before 7am (12am bonfire night and 1am NYD) it's illegal to throw or set them off in the street or public places, it's illegal near buildings or fields that house animals.
Even just on this thread there's countless reports of those things happening, they happen every year without fail, there's reports on my local FB of them being thrown at people and cars, it's quite windy here, which common sense would dictate is not a great time to launch something explosive and a fire risk into the sky in a residential area because you can't control the trajectory and where it lands - but still they are.
So yes, it's anti social and dangerous in some cases and the laws that exist aren't worth the paper they're written on because clearly they're not able to be, or there's no point in trying to enforce the laws we have that put the onus on people to be sensible and safe with them, therefore we need to restrict them getting into society in the first place, so they don't repeatedly end up causing misery, nuisance, fear, injury and damage when they inevitably fall into the hands of people who put their "right" to some "fun" above the safety of others, with the justification for that being 'Cats shit in gardens, dogs bark all year round' (so justifying 'punishment' of that and either ignoring or not caring that it's not just the dog that barks and the cat that shits in the garden that is affected) and 'its tradition, it's fun' - so are blood sports and fox hunting (fun for some people anyway) but we've come past that argument there because it's recognised that cruelty for the sake of fun isn't a good trait, and really blood sports and hunting only affect the animals that are being used/hunted at the time, they don't affect the range of people and animals that fireworks do, in the range of ways they do.
Either the laws we have need to start being actually observed, or that needs to be forced by ensuring that they don't get into circulation for the laws to be ignored in the first place.