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> Or are you saying you'd be happy to have one of these shot at your face?

Given the choice between the fireworks and an actual grenade? Yeah, absolutely.

A terrorist likely has easier access to the former, and it suffices.

This is like insisting a butter knife is a knife

People lose limbs all the time with fireworks

OK, July 4 is coming up, get ready to throw hundreds of thousands of people in jail for decades for setting off "explosives", right? Most fireworks, you can literally stand on top of them while they are going off and not be injured. I've seen videos of police doing it while just wearing light body armor, unphased. Stop being ridiculous. These laws about explosives were intended to be used for military-style weapons.

Yeah sure, if you hold the biggest firework you can legally buy in a closed fist something bad will happen, otherwise it's very unlikely... You're far more likely to cause damage by throwing rocks

Do you understand this is a non-sequitur or do I need to repeat the point of the butter knife?

Edit: NM I'm just gonna call it: this is by far the dumbest bad faith argument for why someone should be in prison for 30 years I have ever heard. You're clearly just a provocateur.

Darwin awards.

The cops actually shoot people in the face and you're afraid of some fireworks, while wearing full body armor? BS