Letter: No law can be a good law without enforcement
It’s sad that the government feels an urgency to do something only after people die. Illegal fireworks has always been a problem. Our state legislators will meet again and waste taxpayers’ money for their annual session, accomplishing nothing. If they do pass a law to stop illegal fireworks, they will likely fail to appropriate the funds to create a task force or whatever is needed to enforce that law.
It’s so sad that every year we have a legislative session and we don’t even know or remember what laws they passed. Most of the laws are unenforceable due to lack of money or resources needed to enforce them.
Take the cellphone law, for example. Drivers are picking up their cellphones to stream shows, text, play games and even call people when they have hands-free infotainment in their cars.
Lance Miyake
Pearl City
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