Lee Cataluna: Let’s look at the fireworks problem from a different perspective

Lee Cataluna: Let’s look at the fireworks problem from a different perspective

There are a lot that we can do as civilians to protect our children and teach them a better way.

The Honolulu police authority finally made some arrests on the terrible New Year’s fireworks explosion, in which five people were killed.

Good. Let us hope that the Honolulu public prosecutor will bring its “a game” to their “game” in these cases. People should go to prison to relieve explosives in their neighborhoods and kill people.

The legislator must record laws that are easier for people who are easier to assert, enforce them with this senseless, dangerous celebration.

Now that these parties seem to rise, we can pay attention to what we can do, we regularly civilians, those of us who water our roofs nervously, calm our pets and pray for heavy rain every New Year.

We have to absorb it from a different perspective.

The part that lies in our responsibility are the children. Our own children, neighboring children, the nieces and nephews, the children we teach in class or in the church, and the random children of the neighborhood that no one look regularly on them.

We can do things to make the children safe, even if the idiotic adults exist in their life and in the air of illegal explosives.

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For example:

If you are a parent and take your children to a New Year’s party or a picnic on July fourth and you will discover someone who joins stacks of illegal antennas somewhere behind the buffet table, grab your Keiki. Go home ”, get into the car and flee to safety.

If you are responsible for the aunt who is responsible at the party and say: “Do not do it here. There are Keiki everywhere. ”

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Let us teach us how to protect yourself.

This means that Poster competitions in public libraries with color dust drawings “Happy New Year means that nobody goes to the hospital” or “fireworks are not lucky if they are arrested”.

This means stickers and T-shirts from the fire brigade with the inscription: “Says Sparky the Fire Dog, don’t be stupid. Air fireworks are illegal and fatal. ”

This means that teachers add to their lessons: “Wash their hands always after they have become potty. Please say and thank you; If your uncle lights fireworks in your garage, run to the house of a neighbor and call you 9-1-1. “

The blackened wall of a house, in which a fatal New Year's fire station took place in Honolulus Salt Lake Viertel on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Several deaths and injuries were reported. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025)The blackened wall of a house, in which a fatal New Year's fire station took place in Honolulus Salt Lake Viertel on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Several deaths and injuries were reported. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025)
Five people, including a child, died on New Year’s Eve, as an illegal fireworks in this house. Parents should never allow children in fireworks, but the police should do more to stop it. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)

And trainers contribute to their PEP talks: “Play clean. Respect the referee. Never give up. And fireworks will blow out with the fingers. “

Pediatricians can have a question like: “Is someone in the life of the child probably a fireworks in the house in the house?” During the routine visits to well -being. If the answer is, the conversation will be prevented from preventing the injury.

High school health courses can spend a day with what can happen to the human body when pyrotechnics go wrong.

There can be Essay competitions for “security and common sense” of the community.

Club consultants can make their students keep signs outside the state capital in which the legislature demands that they write and adopt invoices with real teeth.

Children should not simply be made aware of the dangers. You have the right to be angry about it.

In some houses, the money that is shot into the night sky in the college study fees. Children should feel able to work for themselves. After every other what the potential has to harm children, we hunt from nicotine with sweets with sweets with nicotine to soda machines on a school campus, but we allow them to think that New Year’s Eve is normal and this insane of the war zone literally normalized.

It is difficult for a child to say uncle that he appears at a party with explosive charges: “Hey uncle, can we no longer do that? It’s really dangerous. “But it is more difficult to go through life with less than 10 fingers. It is more difficult to go through life with regret.

Let us ask the legislators to get serious with fireworks and to inform the police, Sheriff, ATF and Stadtstalesanwalt Steve Alm that we sold convictions and prison times for the people who have sold the fireworks, as well as those they bought and have put it in flames.

Let us ensure that we see a significant change in these agencies. Let us also let the younger generations know that the one you grow up with is not correct and is not safe and things should get better and not bigger every year.

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