'This is an epidemic we can control,' Matthew McConaughey said after a school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children dead.
in the United States since a gunman killed 20 first-grade students, four teachers, a principal and a school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut nearly 10 years ago.
“We cannot exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo,” McConaughey continued in his statement.“As Americans, Texans, mothers and fathers, it’s time we re-evaluate, and negotiate our wants from our needs. We have to rearrange our values and find a common ground above this devastating American reality that has tragically become our children’s issue.
This isn’t the first time McConaughey has weighed in on gun violence or referred to the frequent shootings in the U.S. as an epidemic. Following the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, the Oscar winnerthat the March for Our Lives movement would be “hijacked” by people who wanted “no guns at all.”
Noting that he had “a lot of friends who are gun owners” and “a lot of friends who are NRA,” McConaughey stated in 2018 that he was for “rightful, just responsible gun ownership — but against assault rifles, against unlimited magazines and for following up on the regulations.” McConaughey is one of many public figures who lamented the tragedy in Uvalde, as well as other massacres — including the recent shootings in
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