STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA AND STATE SENATOR KIRK WATSON ON FEBRUARY 20, 2018, RECEIVE TENTATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MYSELF ON HOW TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF VIOLENT CRIME IN TEXAS

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:12 PM, John McMillan wrote:

February 20, 2018

Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa and State Senator Kirk Watson of the Texas Legislature governing body for our often-great State of Texas,

I am a tax-paying, gainfully employed, dependably civil and law-abiding and tactfully honest, vigilant and crime-deterrence-minded, Anglo adult male constituent of each of you. I reside in our state capital city of Austin in each of your two respective legislative districts.

I am very concerned about the outrageous frequency of homicides and other violent crimes in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere in Texas these days.

As each of you may be aware, I myself am a permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven and anti-facial-hair-minded, consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), hygienic, single-by-choice, longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to NW Austin in August 2001), British-and-German-ancestry constituent of each of you.

I am also the founder and only approved member of the non-Christian and quality-of-life-minded and implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", a new "Honor Society" religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency.

Today during my leisuretime, I googled "least violent states" in order to identify which U.S. states have been the most successful at deterring violent crime. As you might have guessed, Texas was not among the states fitting that very honorable description. Hawaii, however, was cited for great success in that category.


I am writing you both today to urge each of you to please review the very logical public-policy actions that the U.S. state of Hawaii has pursued to help deter violent crime there.


The online profile (see last item, below) on Hawaii that I obtained today through the above-cited Google search states that the Aloha State "requires residents to obtain a permit with a waiting period of 14 days minimum before they can get a gun."


That factual statement, along with the others cited below, was contained in a "247wallst.com" online blog that was posted on July 12, 2017. The blog was entitled "America's Most Violent (and Peaceful) States", and was written by Samuel Stebbins, Evan Comen, and Michael B. Sauter. I was not able to find any copyright information for that particular blog, but otherwise would have definitely cited that as well in this letter to each of you two very distinguished state legislators who directly represent me in the Texas Legislature.


The above-cited flattering profile on Hawaii also states that "in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to register its gun owners in an FBI database."


The profile on Hawaii also points out that guns are involved in only 21 percent of all homicides there and in only 20 percent of all suicides there --- "the smallest share of any state," the cited online profile (below) states.


The violent crime rate in Hawaii (293.4 per 100,000) is 20th lowest in the nation, and the murder rate there (1.3 per 100,000) is second lowest in the entire nation, according to the above-cited online account that I read today.


Rep. Hinojosa and Senator Watson, are either of you willing to propose to the Texas Legislature that our U.S. state adopt both of the two above-cited strategies in order to help reduce the violent crime rate here in Texas?


Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the rational-goals-minded and non-praying "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
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America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States
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