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Matthew McConaughey has penned a “name to motion” after a gunman killed 19 youngsters and two adults at an elementary faculty in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.
“As soon as once more, now we have confirmed that we're failing to be chargeable for the rights our freedoms grants us,” the actor wrote in a press release on Twitter late Tuesday.
Calling on “each American” to “take an extended and deeper look within the mirror” earlier than asking what it's “we really worth,” McConaughey mentioned it’s not sufficient to easily “exhale as soon as once more, make excuses, and settle for these tragic realities as the established order.”
“As People, Texans, moms and dads, it’s time we re-evaluate, and renegotiate our needs from our wants. We now have to rearrange our values and discover a frequent floor above this devastating American actuality that has tragically turn into our kids’s subject,” he mentioned.
He went on to rail in opposition to the “epidemic” of gun violence, which he mentioned was one “we are able to management.”
“We should do higher. Motion have to be taken in order that no father or mother has to expertise what dad and mom in Uvalde and the others earlier than them have endured,” he wrote.
Although the actor didn't explicitly name for stricter gun regulation in his assertion, he beforehand participated in a March for Our Lives rally in Austin, within the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty capturing in 2018 that killed 17 folks.
At the moment, he confused that whereas he supported the rights of law-abiding gun homeowners, it was a “no-brainer” to ban assault weapons for civilians, shut loopholes in background checks for would-be firearm homeowners, and prohibit the capability of magazines.