I'm a rare American who is opposed to people being able to buy fireworks (a fact that baffles me, since dogs freak out to the point of hurting themselves over the sound, and 1/3 of Americans own dogs; it's like saying, "A majority of Americans support owning this stick whose sole purpose it to poke their children in the eye"). That's why I've taken to referring to them as "consumer-grade explosives." That same American who'd buy a 12-pack of Mega-Buster-Cluster-Bombs if it came with a free child-poking stick, will actually see your point on the unnecessary hazards and danger of publicly available fireworks if you refer to them as "consumer-grade explosives."
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I'm a rare American who is opposed to people being able to buy fireworks (a fact that baffles me, since dogs freak out to the point of hurting themselves over the sound, and 1/3 of Americans own dogs; it's like saying, "A majority of Americans support owning this stick whose sole purpose it to poke their children in the eye"). That's why I've taken to referring to them as "consumer-grade explosives." That same American who'd buy a 12-pack of Mega-Buster-Cluster-Bombs if it came with a free child-poking stick, will actually see your point on the unnecessary hazards and danger of publicly available fireworks if you refer to them as "consumer-grade explosives."