Fireworks can be dangerous. Whether the state should protect us from them would make for a fascinating and unpredictable debate (we MUST wear seat belts, but never mind the motorcycle helmets). But legalizing them would at least give us a coherent law, whether you agree with it or not. The current legislation, under which we can buy fireworks, but only if we promise to use them out of state, makes a joke of the whole idea of the law, sort of in the same way the belt-helmet stupidity does.
