Although fireworks are fun and entertaining to watch, they are very dangerous and should not be on sale to the general public. How can anyone predict what a firework is going to do? Even Guy Fawkes intended fireworks to cause death

These links to the fact that fireworks cause injuries and deaths, fair enough cars and other things cause death and injuries and are not banned. But the injuries caused can be horrific like fingers being blown off, serious burns and other injuries. Someone at my school set off a firework and it exploded in his hand. So now he has a scar on his hand and only half-fingers on one hand. This next fact is also disappointing, 60% of all injuries caused by fireworks are children under 18. I find this horrific that children are able to get hold of fireworks and be at risk of being seriously hurt.

My next point is that fireworks are on sale far too early; they are on sale in September when bonfire night is not until November. Why is this? If people buy them early and store them in their home then they could get accidentally lit and cause a lot of damage to the house. Also if they are kept outside they could become damp and faulty. Young people can get fireworks and use them to cause damage e.g. some children attach the fireworks to dogs and cats because they think it is funny.

This is a waste of time money and resources of the emergency services as some people just buy fireworks to cause damage and the emergency services have to go and sort the damage out. Most of the calls around bonfire night are related to fireworks while they are doing this they cannot respond to other calls. If fireworks were not on sale to the general public then would this problem still occur?

As you can see fireworks are fun and pretty but they are also very dangerous and something should be done about this either by banning the sale of them all together or just selling them to the arrangers of organised events and not to just anybody. If fireworks were not on sale would all of these problems carry on? Ask yourself that question.

Yours faithfully

Kirsten Fenwick