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Last summer I called for a ban on personal fireworks. Hoo boy! The reaction was swift and furious. I was called a Nazi, hysterical, told I should move out of Kern County and likened to a “sheeple.” You’d think I would have learned from that experience, but no. I’m hard-headed that way. We absolutely must BAN ALL PERSONAL FIREWORKS. Perhaps you feel that would impinge on your freedom. Yes, it would. And that’s too bad. But we’ve gone well past the tipping point where “safe and sane” fireworks are used responsibly versus morons endangering large swaths of the community so they can make things go boom. In other words: Your freedom to explode stuff shouldn’t trump my freedom NOT to have my house burn down. Other communities have banned personal fireworks and their worlds did not collapse. The charities that relied on proceeds from fireworks sales found other ways to make money, people found other ways to celebrate,...
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