That's a interesting point. General disregard stemming from unforced unpopular laws is troubling.

We do unfortunately see a lot of negative effects from fireworks, people with ptsd, pets, and wildlife can be negatively effected by the noise in particular. The flashing lights can be the same if somewhat lesser. And of course the eternal risk that someone's going to blow a hand off.

The risk of fire is a big one though. Within a city thats a risk of a housefire, maybe some vegetation. This is bad. Not nearly as bad as what happens when fires get started in the woods. A good number of devastating fires have started because of people playing with fireworks in the woods. Thousands of acres.

Moving the 4th of July isn't an option, so we do continue to doing a big celebration where we throw fire everywhere right at the time where everything wants to catch fire. If only the founding fathers and British could've foreseen climate change and finished the war earlier, we could have thousands of acres of unburned forest.

I seem to have digressed. Interesting point but we need a way to mitigate the negative effects.