Actor Matthew McConaughey went to the White House and met briefly with Joe Biden on Tuesday to support him in his clamor for Congress to approve measures to control and restrict firearms that make it difficult to repeat massacres like those of recent days. in Uvalde (Texas), Buffalo (New York) or Tulsa (Oklahoma). McConaughey was born in Uvalde.
The artist spoke vehemently. “I’m here today hoping to bring all the energy, reason and passion that I have to try and help make a difference,” he said. And he stressed that, in his opinion, “this moment is different” from previous attempts to limit the use of weapons in his country, and now “we are facing the opportunity to make it a reality.”
The White House spokeswoman explained the meaning of McConaughey’s visit in this way, when presenting her speech to journalists: “He is here today to use his platform to ask the leaders of Congress to take bipartisan measures to end senseless killings and pass reasonable accountability measures for weapons that we know will save lives,”
The interpreter, winner of an Oscar for the film Dallas Buyers Club (2013), explained stories of the victims of the May 24 shooting in Uvalde and showed the photograph of one of them, the 10-year-old girl Alithia Ramirez, to support his defense of a political action that “stops the senseless slaughter of our children”.
McConaughey, as he had also indicated in the article he published on Monday in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, nevertheless advocated that “responsible and respectful” Americans can own and bear arms, as stated in the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
The Texan actor was considering last year the possibility of presenting himself as a candidate for governor in his state, as he made public. He finally decided not to enter politics “for the time being”.
