LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Let's put limits on explosives

Dan Rush, Bremerton

Let’s put limits on explosives

Before April 15 I would have fully defended the sale of public fireworks as a right. In light of the incident in Boston that day, forget that — and I’m not joking. It was too easy for the older of the two Boston maniacs to get his hands on firework mortar shells and get them in bulk!

We have seen a violent demonstration of what the powder charges from these explosives can do, and it leaves me wondering why in heck should anyone who is not qualified to handle these explosives have access to them?

You can cry and complain about freedom and free expression all you want, but the three people killed in Boston don’t have that right any more. They died because the lust for idiotic expression overruled common sense!

We have to start asking why explosives have to be an addictive “need” to express our freedom, as if parades, time with family, grilling and parties aren’t enough. Just being with our family and fellow Americans is a blessing, unfortunately a blessing those three people can’t have any more.

I recommend a full ban on public access to mid-grade fireworks, including the mortar shells, the large rockets, the M-80s and the M-90s, and put in place methods to track their sales.

Boston should be the last time any crazy freak will get their hands on such easy-to-access explosives.