Yes agreed. however around here in anywhere suburbia, the fireworks trend is starting around the first weekend in June through to late August. Right, serious injuries with too many to tally, fires, extreme noise, all so annoying! Early and late in the summer, the noise is easily confused with shots fired these days. At those times when firecrackers go off it becomes a what was that moment, because now there are more shootings than in previous decades.

Okay, I'm an old stick in the mud, but still a living stick in the mud.

Also, where in the heck do people get all the money to buy tons of fireworks? They aren't cheap.