Do fireworks=freedom?

Here we are, another Fourth of July behind us. Every year that I have been alive our government has gained power and individual citizens have lost freedoms. This year as in several years past fireworks were illegal to use in the state of Colorado. Our benevolent dictators once again felt the need to protect the ignorant citizens from themselves. So there I sat last night, all of my patriotic fervor packed into a state sponsored fireworks display. I will be the first to admit that the big fireworks are fun to watch. I would have been all for a few of the guys at the fire department setting up a fireworks fund for the community so everyone here could enjoy the big fireworks as they were set off by trained firefighters. Unfortunately, sitting there watching the fireworks I could not get my mind off of the idea that the dollars spent for those fireworks were forcefully taken by the government. The same government that recently outlawed almost all other fireworks. The government really hates competition when they're stealing from you. The phrase they used for what you could use was "Safe and Sane" fireworks. WHAT?? Fireworks by their very nature are neither. You don't use fireworks in day-to-day life because they are dangerous. People who make blowing things up their jobs don't use fireworks because gunpowder is too unreliable and doesn’t pack enough punch. Fireworks are only a manifestation of our celebratory spirit meant to be miniature recreations of the "rockets red glare...bombs bursting in air". They are dangerous and with every liberty there necessarily comes a responsibility. Too many parents don’t take their responsibility seriously and kids get seriously hurt. It only takes so many pictures of poor little Billy standing their with three fingers left and no eyebrows to open the door for the nannyists to walk in spouting about protecting ourselves from ourselves. And voila!! I'm sitting there on a Fourth of July "enjoying" my local state sponsored fireworks show wondering how much freedom I have left for them to take.