Despite Dads Plea Fireworks Regulations Getting Looser

"Devon Staples died on Saturday night in Calais, Maine, after holding a firework to his head as a joke.

The parents of a 22-year-old who was killed after a live firecracker exploded on his head are calling for stricter fireworks regulations."

https://www.yahoo.com/health/youre-just-supplying-people-with-bombs-despite-123471738412.html

People do dumb things with dangerous items. That is a fact of life. Protecting society from doing dumb things is not the answer. While I truly sympathize with the families that lost a loved one, maybe they should have taught their children not to do stupid things.....or maybe they should look for stricter regulations on alcohol.

 

On a related note, don't cover yourself in gasoline then play with matches.

(Sadly, it this does actually happen quite often. Dumbies think they are stunt men and set themselves of fire )

 

You can't outlaw stupid.

 

you mean you don't think we should ban Gasoline to protect people from doing stupid things? </end sarcasm as some will think I was serious>

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Remove the warning labels from products.

Cleanse the gene pool.

 

Perhaps have a simply IQ test you have to pass at the pump.

 

lol, some warnings are funny though

 

Don't play 'Russian Roulette' with a semi-auto pistol.

 

Nope. Remove warning labels. And loosen firework laws.

Maybe after enough time the gene pool will start getting a little deeper.

 

Maybe his parents should push for stricter alcohol regulation. My 13 year old was smart enough to not put a launch tube on his head.

 

I saw a picture of a guy lighting firecrackers with a confederate flag in the background. I say we ban all fireworks because people who use them or watch fireworks displays are obviously racists.

 

Ya can't fix stupid. This guy was very stupid,and it cost him his life. Now his mama wants more restrictions, cuz her baby didn't have more then two working brain cells. Always some else's fault with these kind of people.

 

Let's just say Russian Roulette is a bad idea with any gun.

 

Notice how the example given is always some guy whose portrait is the illustration in the dictionary next to "idiot". Nobody ever goes into how Roger Redneck set his neighbor's roof on fire because he thought sure a bottle rocket would look really neat if was aimed low and flat. Also, just how smart are we expecting our toddlers to be around high explosives and really drunk adult caregivers

Where I live they have only recently (last 5 years) legalized fireworks as part of the "deregulation" craze. Now it seems children have a summer alternative for throwing snowballs at cars, and it can be done from the comfort of another vehicle too

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=throwing+fireworks+at+cars

Isn't FFFRREEDDOMMMM wonderful?

 

evolution doesn't always favor intelligence

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/idiocracy-intro-245281

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no, I think we should have fireworks going of 24-7 on the capital lawn, not to have them there going off 24\7 means your against our history </end sarcasm>

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Why do you hate America? Everybody should have them that way. ISIS' puny bombs won't even be noticed in our patriotic din. AMERICA YES

 

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Real life is far stranger than fiction. The parents who raised the guy who held fireworks to his head and killed himself is now giving us advice on regulation.............you just can't make this stuff up.

 

2014 Darwin Awards

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

I salute them all for their sacrifice in the effort to improve the gene pool.

 

In one of the articles, his mom said “I spent 22 years keeping that boy safe,” she told CBS News." That may be the problem. She didn't teach him to keep himself safe.

 

Let me write this slow so you can understand it: It was a joke. In standard Russian roulette with a revolver, one cartridge is put into a revolver cylinder, and the cylinder is spun, giving roughly 1 in 6 chance of death. In Russian roulette with a semi-auto pistol, one cartridge is put into the magazine, giving a 100% chance of firing the cartridge. It was a sarcastic joke.

 

Playing Russian roulette with a firecracker apparently is not a good idea either.

 

Please note the typical conservative mode of thought.

One person has an accident with dangerous thing by doing something outrageously dangerous

Therefore all accidents are due to people's stupidity and we should allow dangerous things of any degree around everybody for any reason. If people hurt themselves it's their own fault, if they hurt others, hey, (*)(*)(*)(*) happens.

If you see your toddler with matches, go and get him some gasoline. If someone sets fire to your roof, hey, you're insured.

Where I live fireworks were HIGHLY illegal all the time until about 5 years ago. I didn't notice the republic falling because people couldn't set off an artillery barrage in their backyards. Now I see about 10 accidents a year in the local paper and wonder how many go unreported. Some few if all the fire sirens I heard on the 4th were for fires.

On and the business of "lets ban gasoline" is as silly here as it is with guns and cars. The benefit of fireworks is that a bunch of drunks can all go "aaaaa", and you're putting that up against several thousand maimings and hundreds of deaths nationwide. Any of you ever hear the phrase "cost-benefit" and understand the concept?

Two football players probably ended multimillion dollar careers due to fireworks this year. You need all your fingers to reliably catch or throw a football accurately.

And the only other difference I've noted so far is that we have less and less public fireworks displays. I remember everybody used to come to the 4th celebrations, and it was a big thing, sorta , I don't know, like a Celebration of COMMUNITY, hard as that may be to fathom happening on our main patriotic holiday. Now it's all private parties and you risk being shot if you go too close to observe.