Comments for Milt Mays

Comment on 300 million. Guns or people? by milt

milt — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Hey, Ken. Thanks for the comments. Exactly. We can’t take away those 300 million guns, but we have to figure a way to protect the 300 million people from their wrath, and those that would abuse them. We are no longer in the Old West. We don’t need “the great equalizer” anymore, and we especially don’t need unstable people to own them. The culture has to change; the security has to change while we wait for the culture. That may be a long time, though.
Milt

Comment on 300 million. Guns or people? by milt

milt — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:56:01 +0000

Hey, Sar. Yep, hot bullets are like fingers of hate, killing, killing, killing.

Comment on Fathers and sons. by milt

milt — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:54:37 +0000

Hey, Mark. Thanks for your comments. You’ve certainly had your share of adversity with your son, and you both made it through great. Hope you have a great Chrismas, and give Kyle a hug for us!
Milt

Comment on 300 million. Guns or people? by Ken

Ken — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:15:27 +0000

You can never ban all the guns in America. There are just too many, and besides 99 per cent of the people who legally buy them will never use the gun to commit a crime. That said….I can see no reason for semi-automatic weapons such as those used in the school shooting to be legal. They are designed for one purpose and one purpose only….to kill. What happened in Connecticut goes beyond guns. People have become isolated in our moden society. They spend their lives in front of computers or televisions. Young men, some who have mental issues, spend hours playing violent video games. All these things contribute to the terrible violence we are experiencing. As the father of three young girls who are still in school, I do believe we must beef up security if possible. I don’t think teachers should be armed with guns, but perhaps non-lethal weapons that could stop an attack. And while organizations such as the NRA cry that if the government regulates the gun industry and gun ownership, it tramples our freedoms. I would rather give up a little freedom than live in fear of our children being slaughtered at school, or worrying that some idiot is going to shoot you while you watch a movie.

Comment on 300 million. Guns or people? by Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:55:12 +0000

Apparently some in America believe freedom is being sprayed with a hail of bullets. When our nieces, nephews, children or any loved ones get shot, they sit on the Internet and brag to us all about the 2nd Amendment & how wonderful that “right” is. And, BTW, if someone was to kill or attempt to kill without serious fire power, we wouldn’t have these mass killings. One death, anywhere, is one too many. But no need to convince you, you know how I feel!

Comment on Fathers and sons. by Mark Hawkins

Mark Hawkins — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:36:17 +0000

Milt, I read your post on the CT tragedy and it is right on. I couldn’t help but notice your older December 10th post which is almost prophetic, given the recent horrific event.

I digress.

I produced a homemade film called “The First Five Years” based on my two boys in that time period. The filming on my camcorder was overdubbed by music. In one scene, my oldest, Kyle (now 24) was 3 years old rehabbing from a stroke he suffered while at a family vacation in the Bahamas. We had just got home from months of absolute terror, first on the Island of Eleuthera, then in Nassau, then at the University of Miami Neurological Hospital, then at Long Beach Memorial — and THEN home. My home films showed Kyle with a green splint on his left arm as he hobbled like a drunk around the yard. The stroke had been on the right side of his brain, so it did not affect his speech and he is right handed, so he was lucky there too.

In my film, as this scene I describe turns from your yard to his rehab in the pool where the 1984 olympics held their swimming events, Cat Stevens is singing “Father and Son”.

Truthfully, I cannot hear this song without weeping tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. Tears of love.

Studying President Obama’s face while speaking to the press corp yesterday in response to CT brought the same kinds of emotions out. It doesn’t matter if you are pro-gun, anti-gun, Democrat, Republican, White, Black, old, young, a president or king, laborer, Muslim or Christian… We are all human beings armed with EMOTION.

Today, Kyle is an aspiring young man. He doesn’t have motor skills in his left hand but, other than not being able to play baseball or doing all his keyboard work with his right hand, you would never know he had a stroke.

Whoever wrote Obama’s statement yesterday put as much emotion into a couple sentences that were penned by Cat Stevens.

From “Father and Son”:

“It’s not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You’re still young, that’s your fault,
There’s so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy.”

Those kids were just getting started. Hopefully, there will be some common sense made of all this in the days ahead.

Comment on A Little Thing by milt

milt — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:14:49 +0000

Glad you like. Me too.

Comment on A Little Thing by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:21:58 +0000

you should do more posts like this!

Comment on Okay, so I fish. by milt

milt — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:53:36 +0000

Thanks, Dean. Look forward to it. Off to the Tetons and the Green next week. I’ll be helping out with Wounded Warriors in Oct.

Comment on Okay, so I fish. by Dean K Miller

Dean K Miller — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:30:06 +0000

Awesome trip Milt! We need to hook up here in CO, catch a few fish, tell some tall tales and maybe share a writing secret or two. Thanks for bringing your journey back home for us to share