Maybe the word killjoy was perhaps too emotive a word to use. By wanting the sale of fireworks banning was not due to the fact that the firework industry in itself is dangerous, I was merely pointing out the number of imbeciles able to get their hands on them frightens me hence the expression of monkeys and machine guns.
As I said we let off fireworks as kids but it was a different era then, just one example of this was when I walked out of my front door the other morning, after a night of fireworks going off, to find a VERY large rocket embedded in the top of the front hedge less than 3 feet away from my car, if that had hit my bonnet it would have made a sizeable dent in the bonnet or maybe have cracked the windscreen, I would have had no recourse, although no excuse when I was a kid no one on the estate owned a car!
Watching the news the other night about the fire brigade being called out to a bonfire only to be "ambushed" by a load of louts hiding under the cover of darkness aiming rockets at the fire crew and hurling "banger's" these young people seem to have no regard for the safety of others or authority nowadays, they spend all day playing violent video games them transfer it onto the streets, I don't believe they see any difference.
One only has to see what's happening in the U.S.A. with their gun culture. Mass shootings now on a weekly basis. They have a department called Homeland Security that looks out for foreign terrorists unfortunately the Americans biggest enemy is the Americans themselves.
The A.R.A. {American Rifle Association} can't understand what the problem is, bearing arms is the right of every American, it's in their constitution, they don't seem to be interested in the fact millions of people demonstrate to get the gun laws at least amended to stop the slaughter {they probably call them killjoys}.
This country seems to be starting to go down that same dark road, we can all see what's happening over the pond and their sentences for law breakers are a lot harsher than ours. The only way to change peoples mind set here is to start with the young, and a good place to start is banning fireworks, after all what's the point of trying to teach the young to respect other people and their property and not to use guns or knives if for two or three months of the year they can freely walk round with "explosives" in their pockets.
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