WASHINGTON – Actor Matthew McConaughey, native son of Uvalde, Texas took lectern in White House briefing room on Tuesday and spoke of education, in his adolescence, “revere power and opportunities” of a gun. Then he said of in horror he felt like he was losing 19 school children in his hometown to a man with a rifle so powerful that it disfigured many of their bodies are unrecognizable.
Fresh off meeting with President Biden, Mr. McConaughey echoed the president’s words. call for advanced background checks on gun buyers, new red flag laws and additional restrictions on in purchase of Rifles AR-15 like in one used to kill 19 children and two elementary school teachers in uvalde last month. He introduced himself as voice for responsible gun owners and description, in graphic detail, horror of gun violence.
“The children were left not only dead, but empty,” McConaughey said, describing the meeting with in parents of killed children in Uvalde, whose bodies were “so mutilated that only DNA tests could be used to identify them” or green Converse sneakers.
“Yes, advisers will be needed in uvalde for a long time ago,” he said.
Shooting one of deadliest school assaults on record as well as one of more over 200 mass shootings recorded in The United States is still year. In just 10 days before the shooting in Uvalda, a militant shot 10 people. people at the Buffalo grocery store store.
Mr. McConaughey’s appearance at the White House was bipartisan. group of senators are trying to negotiate new legislation in response to gun violence. Senators participate in negotiations expressed muted optimism that they could produce some of legislation that may clear evenly divided chamber, although it definitely didn’t fit of some measures like ban on assault weapon, which Mr. Biden called for.
Mr McConaughey who also met with legislators on capitol hill on On Tuesday, he said he and his wife, Camilla, went to Uvalde the day after the shooting.
“You could feel the shock in city, he said. “You could feel pain, denial, frustration, anger, guilt, sadness. The loss of life, dreams stop.”
he suffocated up as he said of meeting parents of Alicia Ramirez, 10 years old who dreaming of going to art school in Paris and how Alicia father, ryan, recently received higher- a paid job, promising that it would mean he would ruin her by taking her to Sea World.
Mr McConaughey asked his wife to hold up Converse green high top sneakers worn every day 10-year- old Maite Rodriguez, who hoped to learn one a day to become a marine biologist, and who It was drawn heart on right toe to symbolize her love of nature. “These are the same green Converse on her legs,” Mr. McConaughey said, “which turned out be the only one clear evidence that could have identified her after the shooting.”
He hit the pulpit. “How about this?”
He also described encounter with beautician who was experienced in funeral makeup for views in an open coffin. “These bodies were very different,” McConaughey said. “They needed a lot more than makeup to be presentable. They needed extensive restoration. Why? Due to exceptionally large exit wounds of AR-15 rifle.
After a few minutes, Mr. McConaughey turned to politics. He named on in news media to reduce it’s sensational coverage of mass shootings. He repeatedly called need for “responsible gun property, including new the rules the Democrats pushed through in response to shootings.
“We need raise the minimum age to purchase AR-15 rifle at 21,” he said. “We need waiting period for these rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them. These are reasonable, practical, tactical rules.”
Mr McConaughey star of films such as Dazed and Confused and Dallas Buyers Club, as well as the television series True Detective. series is considered to be running for governor of Texas last year but rules out in november call politics “a path which I prefer not to take at the moment.”
Emily Cochrane as well as Annie Carney made a report.
