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Fireworks are fun, sure, but also dangerous. 10 years old is much too young to be setting off any kind of explosive. They're legally for sale in my city/county for four days (1st-4th), and Grace (my wife, a Paramedic) is run ragged those four days.
The biggest offenders are firecrackers going off in people's hands. She told me last year that it isn't that people light the firecracker, which then goes off prematurely, though that does happen, but people will light the fuse, then hold the firecracker in their hands, waiting for the furse to run short, then throw it in the air, trying to time it so that it explodes in the air.
The other biggie is rockets/roman candles that are set off while someone is holding them. Roman candles can backfire, burning the person holding it quite badly. She, or one of the other crews, gets one or two of those a year. A year before she started with her current crew, a man lost an eye to a backfiring roman candle.
Go watch the professional skyworks put on locally. They're much safer, and you get plenty of pretty colored explosions and big booms.
I have no problem whatsoever with any fireworks restrictions.
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