Banning kids from going around getting candy and having fun isn't a solution.
We used to deck out the house with lab skeletons and creepy lighting, etc..... my father used to dress up in a monkey suit and hide in the trees to scare the crap out of kids coming into the property...... one year I sacked two garbage bags full of candy, my brother three and a half garbage bags..... we'd take off about an hour and a half after we got home, dressed and ate..... and we wouldn't come home until midnight. Once we were done around our neighborhood, our dad would get us into the car and go across the county to see my aunts, uncles, grandparents and then loot their neighborhoods.
What more could a kid ask for besides christmas?
And now people want to ruin their fun..... have curfews, only allowed to wear certain costumes..... the masks need half of them cut off so they can see where they're going..... now the proposal to just ban it and no longer have it?
I'd really like to see that happen...... I've already seen what happens when people around here complain to the police about kids playing road hockey and force them off the roads..... I can only imagine what would happen if one tried to ban halloween from coast to coast.
You know what would happen?
Children would protest and protest the only way they know how....... by going out for halloween anyways, only instead of going door to door getting candy that isn't there, they'll turn the entire night into one massive vandalism spree..... ie: Trick rather then Treat.