In response to the Salt Lake firework explosion, government officials have been focusing on tougher penalties for those who break fireworks laws. Some ideas proposed by our politicians include stiffer penalties for fireworks posession and increasing prosecution of those found to be using fireworks. However, deterrence of a good with as high of a demand as fireworks has limits. Similar to why Prohibition in the United States failed in the 1930s, people would likely continue to use fireworks, overly relying on the illegal market which the state cannot regulate.