Fireworks

My dog hates fireworks...and gunshots. I am all for fireworks. Loved them as a kid and always wished we had access to them and envied the folks in the Dakota's because they could buy things that would explode. Here is the hitch. Now that they are readily available to all via those fireworks superstores across the border in Wisconsin, we now have people blowing them off at all hours of the day and night, and not in July. The thing is, my brain in a sleepy state, cannot tell if those "pops" I hear are fireworks, or gunshots. Gunshots resonate over the river from North Minneapolis into Nordeast, not that we do not have gunshots orginating in Nordeast, but you get my point. I implore Mayor R.T. to address these parallel issues...so we can just complain about the fireworks.