Call me a provocateur, call me naive… But I think guns are a hell of a lot more dangerous than fireworks both to the individual and the greater population given how many people firearms kill in proportion to fireworks.
The environmental damage mediated through any firework malfunction induced forest fires triumphs any amount of property damage a conventional firearm has the capacity to induce though.
Do I advocate for banning guns/firearms or fireworks? No
I advocate for keeping idiots away from them (i.e kids having bottle rocket rights, adults blowing up the neighbourhood on NYE despite only owning tiny plots of land unsuitable for the use of such explosives, some paranoid conspiracy nut hoarding 100 assault rifles).
Don’t “ban” fireworks, make sure people are properly taught how to handle them. Mandate one has taken safety courses, stores the products in a safe and secure environment, limit purchases to those above 18 etc etc.
The “just ban it” schtick irritates the hell out of me because it almost never works. If bans on fireworks were effective I wouldn’t have seen them go off in the sky over every second and third house years back (before I moved more rurally). If a near blanket ban on firearms worked we wouldn’t have the same firearm homicide rate we had prior to the Port Arthur massacre (in Aus), if a near blanket ban on fireworks worked we wouldn’t see them getting set off all over the place on the 4th of July.
If a ban on drugs worked in the Phillipines the quantity of methamphetamine manufacturers over there would have dropped when Duterte ordered police to shoot users/manufacturers on sight (also advocated for extrajudicial killings).
My point being… You can’t just ban things, you need to enforce a cultural shift to remove the allure behind a taboo. As can be seen with how Australians are more scared of astrazenica than they are of covid-19
With the whole regulatory schtick… I advocate for some regulation, not overt and extensive regulation. The latter becomes a nightmare seeped in red tape and nonsensical bylaws that make it very difficult for legitimate applicants to acquire what they need.