The more illegal fireworks become, the more people fire them off. I'm amazed we don't have more house fires on this night, especially since the illegal ones seem to be really big and a whole lot more powerful than our old street ones.
That said, I miss the days as a kid when we could buy them freely and everyone would set them off in the street in front of their house. It was a neighborhood event, and it was a normal, fun thing everyone did.