If You aren't Free to Celebrate Freedom, what Freedom do You have?

   Since Gov. Spencer Cox announced a statewide ban on fireworks on all state and unincorporated property two weeks ago, the dominos have been falling, cities and counties adding their own bans. 

  Park City canceled its fireworks show, citing not only the danger of fires, but the need to save valuable water that would be used on show preps. Eagle Mountain banned fireworks altogether. Salt Lake County called on its residents to forego lighting private fireworks. Then, today, perhaps the most incendiary move of all -- in terms of igniting a public outcry -- Salt Lake City banned personal fireworks -- outright banned them, leaving critics wondering if Mayor Erin Mendenhall had the right to do so. 

   Freedom, you know, the right to light fireworks ranking right up there with the right to practice your religion, the right to bear guns, and the right to speak you mind. So, the right to fire a Roman candle is now right there with the right to fire a pistol.

   If you aren't free to celebrate freedom, what freedom do you have, right?

   All hyperbole aside, I support Mayor Mendenhall's decision.