In a new open letter, Matthew McConaughey is calling for greater gun responsibility (not control) saying: “We need to make the lost lives matter.”
McConaughey says he believes the ongoing debate surrounding gun control has yielded “nothing but status quo,” and needs to be shifted to focus on responsibility, instead. A father of three, he writes that “we have a cultural obligation to take steps toward slowing down the senseless killing of our children” after clarifying his assertion that “responsible, law-abiding Americans have a Second Amendment right, enshrined by our founders, to bear arms.
He also pushes for a strict age requirement for the purchase of assault rifles, writing: “The killer in my hometown of Uvalde purchased two AR-15s for his eighteenth birthday, just days before he killed 19 students and two teachers. He obeyed the law. Had the law been different, perhaps I wouldn’t be writing this today.”was identified as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old man who lived in Uvalde and died at the scene after opening fire on a classroom full of children.
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