And I thought it was illegal

Well, another Fourth has come and gone. Last night, as I and my family watched the fireworks at the closing of the Taste of Minnesota, a large food and fun festival (check out the alliteration!) that happens in the state capital of St. Paul, I was amazed to see several thousand, and perhaps million dollars of potential tax revenue all around the city. Everywhere I looked, hundreds of supposedly "illegal" fireworks being sent up all around this great city of ours. And I'm not talking just little bottle rockets, but I mean full fledged mortars, 100-shot repeaters, everything the State Congress thinks are "too dangerous" for the public to be allowed access. And as far as I could tell, very few people had gotten hurt. I did see a few ambulences and police running about, but seeing the zoo that was downtown, I'm sure more of it was due to assaults and fights because of the wide range of "diversity" that appeared for the show. And to my recollection, most of them were going away from all the "illegal" fireworks that were being set afire in the sky. Looks like there are far more dangerous things happening on the Fourth than a few SWOOSHES and BANGS.