Actor Matthew McConaughey, a native of Uvalde, Texas, visited the White House Tuesday and urged leaders to make the loss of 19 children and two teachers in last month’s school shooting “matter.”
“So I am here today in the hopes of applying what energy, reason and passion that I have and to try and turn this moment into a reality because this moment is different,” an emotional McConaughey said during Tuesday’s White House briefing. “We start by making the loss of these lives matter.”
“We start by making laws that save lives and don’t infringe on our Second Amendment rights. We start right now by voting to pass policies that can keep us from having so many Columbine, Sandy Hooks, Parklands, Las Vegas and Uvaldes.”
McConaughey, who once considered a run for Texas governor, talked about learning to handle guns responsibly as a boy in Uvalde, as he called for gun responsibility, not gun control.
“We need background checks. We need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them,” he said.
The actor reminisced about last month’s visit to his hometown after the shooting, as he showed photos of the children killed and described how their families pleaded with him to make sure their loss mattered.
“We need to invest in mental health care. We need safer schools. We need to restrain sensationalized media coverage. We need to restore our family values. We need to restore American values,” McConaughey said.
McConaughey also discussed conversations he had with gun owners in Uvalde. “Responsible gun owners are fed up with the Second Amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals,” he said.
And the actor challenged leaders in Washington, D.C. to finally enact gun laws that save lives.
“Can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life preservation problem on our hands,” McConaughey said. “This should not be a partisan issue.”
“As divided as our country is, this gun responsibility issue is one that we agree on more than we don’t,” the actor said. “Find the middle ground, a place where most of us Americans live anyway, especially on this issue, because I promise you, America, you and me, we are not as divided as we are being told we are.”
McConaughey wrapped up the briefing by calling on Congress to make a difference now and take “a chance to make the right choice that does more than protect your party. A chance to make the right choice that protects our country now and for the next generation.”
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Apparently he still wants to be governor and like a true Democrat will not let a crisis go to waste. He needs to line up right behind Beto, with all the Biden Whitehouse behind him and watch as Texans reject them all. Way too many drugs have gone through this one’s systemn and brain to be counted upon to get logical workable solutions, just dreams of a unity that Democrats can never deliver,,,or else they go out of business. This one is Hunter Biden on smaller steroids who has yet to get found out.
I used to like Matt, and felt he’d be ok in office.. BUT IF HES GOING AFTER GUNS like this, then i have to remove my support..
I remember many a home buying seminar/job hunting seminar etc, that kept bashing us in the head with the phrase “YOU NEVER MAKE BIG DECISIONS WHILE HIGHLY EMOTIONAL. Take your time and THINK about it…”
THE SAME applies to making new laws, that impact EVERYONE.
He comes across as being more level-headed and sincere than the majority of Hollywood and the likes of The View. I hope it is legitimate.
He is acting that is what an actor does. Besides Matthew McConaughey, is a flip flopper .
I’ve always liked McConaughey, and I think he is legitimate, and sincere.
But besides his heartfelt sorrow over the tragedy that befell his hometown, he comes with a message that openly defies Our 2nd Amendment Right.
He wants us to give up Our Right to own a tool, an inanimate object that was used in a horrible crime. Millions of people own that tool, yet there are not millions of people committing these horrible crimes.
It was a passionate speech, and he delivered it well. But I feel it was like someone presenting you a gift, with pretty wrapping paper, and pretty ribbons tied into a pretty bow. And there is a greeting card with beautiful words written by hand in a personal message that brings a warm feeling to your heart.
But when you open the box, you find a dry hard ball of poop.
And then he smiles at you and says, “You’re welcome…”
“We have a life preservation problem on our hands” says McConaunghey,,,,,,,because our grain producing farmers cannot afford to buy the energy that plows, fertiilizes and harvests the grain that feeds our American life stiock who feeds WE THE PEOPLE while Putin steals the Ukrainina Grain that feeds Europe. So why is McConaughey taking up the Whitehouse Microphone that creates this mess, thereby giving this administration some modicum of legitimacy? His intentions may be good but he is playing o the wrong team. Millions starving worldwide apparently is not as important as a Texas City of about 1600 people. He offers a bandage while America is hemorrhaging
While our government takes the corn that could feed the hungry and makes it into ethanol. Get the oil fields drilling and pumping again along with using the Keystone pipeline. DUH !
BECAUSE like all leftists, he’s a pontificating moron.
Yes ,I want gun reform I want a 3 strikes gun law. 3 strikes with a gun and it’s back to africa
3 times nabbed with a firearm they are NOT ALLOWED TO have since they are fellons, then make it LIFE no parole.
hey mathew you are an actor in other words you play make believe for a living and have got very wealthy doing so.
you live in a private community i would guess with armed body guards.
this being said ‘i do not need a lecture from “a hollywood elite dirt bag liberal” about the shall not be infringed 2nd amendment.
now go pound sand.
AND You can bet, if he gets a script where he’s a “HERO WITH A GUN”, he will jump all over it.
How many gun movies has McConaughey been in? How much money did he make modeling those guns for America’s boys?
Gotta love the Hollywood hypocrites.
AND How many armed guards has he had over the years!
Did he say those kid’s lives don’t matter unless gun laws are imposed? Unless they can be of use as props for Democrats?