Love them or hate them, fireworks are hard to ignore.
This past Victoria Day, some neighbourhoods sounded like an hours-long re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. What you think of that depends on your perspective: if you enjoy it with happy, excited kids, that's great; if you spend miserable hours trying to calm pets who are having a coping failure, not so much.
This past week, an online poll that ran across all the Village Media sites asked: If you had the power to do it, would you reduce or eliminate the use of fireworks?
The overall result was almost exactly 50:50, which makes for the most boring graph ever, so I'm not going to bother you with it.
There was a modest gender difference:
Age, interestingly, was a sharp divider. It would be interesting to know what's behind this - decades ago, access to fireworks was more strictly controlled, and they were rarer, so that may be part of it.
Party differences don't show up strongly - other than for the PCs.
There does seem to be a connection between attitudes to fireworks and some other things that involve a balance between risk and pleasure:
There also seems to be a relationship to attitudes to sports and sports culture, very generally:
