Oh dear Socky: 2 children killed in a massive fireworks blast, no names, no one charged, on some mystery property that was "next door" in your last and is now "50 miles away" and no record anywhere. They must have been "abos", eh, little racist sock-puppet?

You really should think before you go posting porky pies, dear, they'll always catch up with you, you hysterical little obsessive.

Now off you toddle and practise self determination by beating your tiny little fist into your keyboard while you scream obscenities at antiseptic. You know you want to...

M, I suggest you check your facts, a simple google found this, the death rate from fireworks.
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=australia,history+fireworks+deaths&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=JAs&sa=G&tbs=tl:1&tbo=1&ei=Jo5OSom7L4Ps6AOmtamIBA&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11

It’s very interesting, after a surge in the 1890’s they dropped away significantly, up until they were banned, at which point they surged again!
Sort of makes a mockery of the quoted reasons for banning them, doesn’t it?
Perhaps childhood experience and training actually saved lives?

I grew up with 'cracker night', and missed it when it was banned. Mind you, we used to do some dreadful things with 'tuppenny bungers', marbles and water pipes when I was a kid - it was sheer good fortune that neither I nor my mates weren't maimed by our bunger guns.

My kids have never known 'cracker night', so they don't miss it at all. None of them are criminals.

Antiwomen: "Look at me, look at me".

Just to add a few more FACTS (sic) to the story, instead of the sock-puppet's hysterical untruths, I followed Max's google search and came up with this:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a725288547

Which is an analysis of fireworks use in several countries and it came up with the following 2 FACTS(sic):

"Males and children <15 years of age accounted for most admissions"

"Fatal injuries were mostly to males aged 15-44 years"

So, while it appears socky's hysterical "PROTECT THE CHILDREN from death and injury" is actually correct on the injury side of things, hardly unexpectedly, she'll be pleased to note that it's mostly men who get killed when consumer fireworks are freely available, but she'll be disappointed to learn that only 22 of them were killed in a 5 year period in the US out of a population of 250,000,000+.

She can console herself that it was mostly boys who were injured.
It's the perfect gender-specific weapon in her fight against reality.

Pomeranian:"Antiwomen: "Look at me, look at me"."

And they said it wasn't possible to train a Pomeranian...

Let's look more closely at the link provided by Antiwomen: His comments are good example of how Antiwomen has no concern for the "overall" truth, and no concern for deaths and injuries due to cracker night.

The international study covers the period from 1991 to 1995 and here are some "other" FACTS it uncovered, facts that Antiwomen NEGLECTED TO SAY.

Regarding fireworks:

1)There were no deaths in Australia

2)Overall, Australia experienced the lowest hospital admission rates of all studied countries

3)Australian injuries were also less severe

4)Conclusion: Deaths from firework injuries are rare in Australia

5)The time frame studied was 1991 to 1995

These results clearly display that the elimination of cracker night and the non-availability of crackers for cracker night has helped protect all participants from death and/or injury.

Antiwomen is soooooooo stupid he can't even correctly interpret his own googled survey. Ha ha, it's sooo funny. But seriously, the whole point of his recent uvenile language and posts on this topic is to get his "revenge", because he was completely out debated on that other topic regarding his ridiculous conspiracy theory that the sexual molestation of women by NRL players is just part of a conspiracy to get women into "unassailable positions of power on NRL football boards".

As has been pointed out - - - Antiwomen can't stand the thought of women possessing self determination or having power over any man. I'm an old, virtually retired grazier from outback Australia; gee if even "I" can see through him, imagine how easy it must be for others to see through him.