My name is Nick Gunn.  I am fourteen years old and in 9^th grade.  The school I attend is Redmond Junior High in Washington state.  The project I did this web page for is called "Connections".  It is called this because everyone picks a controversial topic that is connected to the community and does a report on it.  The project was assigned by both my Language Arts teacher and my Social Studies teacher (it is a block class).  Their names are Ms. Hillman and Mr. Hurst.

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I chose this topic to research, first of all, because I like fireworks and up until a few years ago, they were legal where I live.  They are still legal in my county, King County, but illegal in my city and many of the cities around me.  The cities that they are still legal in, and even the county, are now talking about banning fireworks also.
I thought it would be interesting to find out the reasons legislators feel the need to ban fireworks and if I agreed that these were significant reasons to ban them.

Near my home there is an Indian reservation that I go to that is allowed to sell all types of consumer fireworks (previously known as class-C fireworks), whereas city fireworks stands are only allowed to sell "safe and sane" fireworks which are regulated by the government.  These fireworks do not include such items as bottle rockets and firecrackers or many of the items that leave the ground.  These are considered to be the safest of the consumer fireworks.  Although the Indian reservations are only supposed to sell consumer fireworks, all you have to do is discretely ask to "see the bigger stuff" and you are able buy anything from a M-80 to a M-1000---a half stick of dynamite.  Obviously safe and sane fireworks stands are a lot safer than the Indian reservation and if there were more of these stands fewer people would go to the Indian reservation.