Fireworks Should Be Banned.

People in my area, normally a quiet, friendly estate, have had fireworks posted through their letterboxes by irresponsible, immature young people who have been allowed to get their hands on them. Luckily, my house was not targeted, but an elderly woman's across the street from me was, and she has been afraid to leave her house in case of someone coming to get her.

There definitely needs to be laws introduced to make it more difficult to obtain fireworks, or introduce licensing where you need to have a license to own them or light them. I think licensing does exist but it isn't enforced.

It definitely does not help showing a firework through the letterbox on EastEnders. It was similar to the egg-throwing situation last year, but on a much worse level.

Very much in the camp of fireworks should not be on general sale to the public. Been thinking about it quite a bit lately as where I live currently youngsters have been setting them off in the streets for the past fortnight or so and it will continue now until new year.
I do have strong doubts and concerns with a general ban though as it would move to black market bangers and unlicensed products - people will get their hands on them if they want them enough - and that can of worms has to potential to be a lot more dangerous.

In this period of enlightened 'eco-friendlieness' and carbon off-setting I've really begun to question the necessity of celebrating Bonfire Night. Its such an idiotic 'festival'. We all know the story of Guy Faulkes, but really whats the lesson to be learnt here? Nothing salient except that a man tried to blow up Parliament and got rumbled. We're literally burning sh*t, killing wildlife and the atmosphere, to celebrate someones failure. "Lets all stand near this big ominous fire and set off fireworks" - it's so pointless.

If there was one calendar day I'd like to see removed it's Bonfire Night. Burn it.

It is a difficult 'celebration' to explain to youngsters: the saving of Parliament and the King and his family, the persecution of Roman Catholics, the reasons for this and the consequences. Not easy. But worth doing I think. As for the fireworks, well, I’m sorry but I am a back garden show person. In the supermarkets by me they don’t sell to children and everything is under lock and key til paid for so the kids can’t lift 'em. But I suppose when sold there is no restriction on them. We do a show for the kids, and health and safety always on guard! We warn the neighbours with animals and we clear up as much as possible.

If the incidents of misuse of fireworks is bad, then I would support a ban on sale to general public. So I suppose a ban will happen.

i love firework
what i hate with a passion are firecrackers or bangers (hope google translated it right for me)
from beginning of december until new years eve every kid in our town think they have to make the most of noise with them - never
get whats so great about them - one "boom" and that was it
also some idiots always throw them into a crowd of people and there are always injuries

There is something very exciting about being in a crowd celebrating a religious festival in a country such as Spain (where, let’s face it, they’ll have a procession for some obscure saint at the drop of a castanet) where fireworks are part of the celebrations and little kids are setting off firecrackers and trying to scare eachother and everyone else. It’s that sort of thing, with the noise of the crowd, and the lights, the music and yes, a slight element of risk that makes you feel alive.

However you’re not going to take your dog on a lead to that sort of event, and someone who hates bangs isn’t going to go at all. I also don’t think I’ve heard of Spanish people setting off the old “fuegos artificales” in their back gardens getting pissed, huddled round a pan of paella. No. It’s dear old Blighty and the stupid, chav element (kids and adults) who gets a kick out of showing off at inappropriate times and in inappropriate places with fireworks. I don’t like banning things that most normal people are capable of being responsible with, and I don’t want to live in a world where you can’t make a loud noise in case you alarm a person or an animal. But they should be very heavily controlled and it should be an offence to misuse them, just as it is to misuse a firearm.

I tried to buy some last year, I just wanted to have a little display for my apartment building in the communal garden. I couldn’t actually buy what I’d describe as ‘normal’ small scale fireworks. No Roman Candles, no Catherine Wheels, not a rocket on a stick in sight. What I COULD have bought were lots of what looked like display standard bombs and missiles and god only knows what else, all bragging in the ads about how huge they were. Got to be something wrong there.

They have tightened up a lot since i were a lad and they were freely available. Also dont think there are "tonnes" of deaths and injuries nowadays. Don't get me wrong im no fan and never have been but cant see it ever being banned outright.

Katy Cider is better.

I'm surprised by all the people complaining about fireworks a month either side of 5th November. Where I live fireworks are a year-round thing. There's a rugby club not far away from me and there's a display there once or twice a month.

30 years of watching Casualty means that I’ll never have fireworks at home!

In my hometown in America Fireworks are banned, get caught, that's a $2500 fine. Funny thing is, when they got banned it was because of a drought and not stupid people being stupid.

It's nice not worrying about firework.

I’m lying on my sofa watching half a dozen lots of fireworks go off. I love living high up this time of year.

When I was a student in Manchester it felt like Beirut with all the kids throwing fireworks and back then I’d have supported a ban.

Related to this I have to applaud all the people stood in big Tesco car park watching the big fireworks display here...but without paying £12 for the privilege. Meanwhile given its a rugby international day, half of Cardiff is too pissed to notice.

Our little party went well. All over by 7.30 so kids going to bed not too much disturbed. We did have a few very noisy fireworks which I would have preferred not to have. Need to check noise levels in future if poss.

£12???

Tomorrow's big display here in Inverness is free. AND there's a funfair and food stalls.

I think the sales should be restricted, I don’t see much trouble in the bits Of Stoke I knock around in, but I was once driving through Manchester in early November and a firework was thrown at my car and I had to swerve to avoid it! No doubt by some brainless idiot kid.

I went to Reykjavik for New Years once and they’re only allowed fireworks on certain days of the years, so in the days leading up to NYE, they sell them in the streets to raise money for the lifeboats, and from 11.30pm on New Year’s Eve, the entire city just Let’s them off! We gathered in the main square with hundreds of others and people were just drinking and letting fireworks off in the crowd, there were SO many you couldn’t hear the big clock chime midnight. Some people had safety goggles on! They were going Off EVERYWHERE! There were no police, no fire engines, no trouble, no arrests. I can’t imagine that happening in the U.K., it’d be carnage!