I never understood bans on fireworks, personally. Most of the people getting hurt by them... come on. "Hey, let's see what happens if we shoot the bottle rocket at John's face! Duhhuhuhuhuhh!"
In other pointless ban news...
Hey, guys, I saw a news story that many legislators are proposing a ban on ALUMINUM BASEBALL BATS. This is incredibly ridiculous. So, the ball travels, what, 10 MPH faster off of a metal bat and maybe 3 more children per decade get killed by line drives. Except the velocity isn't the problem here so much as WHERE the baseball hits you. Or, we pass this ridiculous ban, thousands of kids leave baseball (because they're too small to properly handle heavy wooden bats), don't get active, and die of obesity-related problems in early adulthood as a result. Seriously. It's like our government WANTS society to go down the crapper.