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Okay, you can have sex at 16, you can get guns at 18, but you can't drink until you're 21, and in certain states you can't even buy fireworks?
What, did someone take all the laws in one bag, a list of ages running from "since birth" to "pre-teens with parents permission" all the way up to "completly illegal" in another, and then just hold a raffle?
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Ah, that's "you can legally have sex at 16 in all but 12 states." Of the remaining 12, 8 mandate age of consent at 18 & the other 4 allow it at 14 (Mississppi, Arkansas, Kentucky, & Hawaii). That's the last time I checked, though. My info may be a year or 2 out of date.
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No-one else think that being able to produce children, butnot being allowed to operate a little rocket - that goes "weee" - ever, is possibly a little bit strange?
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"and in certain states you can't even buy fireworks?"
Very dangerous and useless.
At least, that's the reasoning.
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Frank: Ah. At first, I was afraid you were stating your own opinions on the matter, in which case I was going to fall out of my chair. *L*
I'd say sex is dangerous, guns and alcohol are both dangerous and useless, and fireworks are dangerous but just too cool to ban. *LOL*
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Fireworks are great only for certain events and for blowing up a broken AMT Star Trek model to make battle damage...
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So you're allowed to do dangerous things as long as it either a/ Protects your house from dirty nasty robbers. b/ Produces more Yanks. Cause we do need that.
But if it's only fun, then it's banned. Good to see the government continuing to tell you how to have fun. Besides, the argument "they might hurt themselves" doesn't really wash, does it? I'd hardly say that fireworks are more difficult to operate, or less dangerous than cars.
When can you drive anyway? Or smoke? (I'm sure I ask this every year. But it keeps dropping out.)
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This is the first year fireworks of any kind, were legal in West Virginia, and the first year that I didn't bother. And for the record: Sex-16 beer-18 Drivers-14 with parent. learners, but can drive alone-16. real drivers-18
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In Missouri, driving age is 16 (15.5 for a learner's permit), alcohol is 21, tobacco is 18. I think the legal age of consent is 18, too. Firearms might be 21; I'm not sure.
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quote:and in certain states you can't even buy fireworks?
See, it turns out Liam that Los Angeles is in a desert...you know a dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
We're not talking about professional firework displays, we're talking about Jed and his 9 kids shooting bottle-rockets into tinder dry brush and burning half of the drought-ridden state of Florida or California into a burned over mess.
Los Angeles also has tons of wood shingle roofs...which is being changed as new houses get built, but the wood shingle roofs burn baby burn. So L.A. prohibits the sale of fireworks. Monterey Park, 10 minutes away does not.
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It's funny, but today I just saw on TV about a fire in North Hills (it's in Los Angeles County) that was caused by a firecraker. It burned up grass near the 405 Freeway and nearly took out an appartment garage.
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And that, people, is why you don't set off firecrackers near dry grass. :-)
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