Matthew McConaughey penned a heartbreaking word about his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, the place an 18-year-old gunman ruthlessly killed 19 youngsters and two lecturers at an elementary college on Tuesday.
After studying of the horror on his house soil, McConaughey issued a name to motion to fight gun violence.
“As you all are conscious there was one other mass taking pictures in the present day, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” the actor wrote on social media.
“As soon as once more, we have now tragically confirmed that we're failing to be liable for the rights our freedoms grant us.”
The Oscar winner known as for Individuals to take a “longer and deeper look within the mirror,” including, “What's it that we really worth? How can we restore the issue? What small sacrifices can we individually take in the present day, to protect a more healthy and safer nation, state, and neighborhood tomorrow?”
McConaughey known as for an finish to creating “excuses and accepting these tragic realities as the established order.”
The actor, who moved from Uvalde to Longview, Texas, on the age of 11, mentioned the infinite information of gun violence within the US is “an epidemic we will management.”
“Whichever facet of the aisle we might stand on, everyone knows we will do higher,” he continued. “Motion should be taken in order that no guardian has to expertise what the mother and father in Uvalde and the others earlier than them have endured.”
McConaughey urged Individuals to search out “widespread floor” to place an finish to mass shootings as soon as and for all.
“And to those that dropped off their family members in the present day not understanding it was goodbye, no phrases can comprehend or heal your loss, but when prayers can present consolation, we’ll preserve them coming,” he concluded.
McConaughey beforehand described himself as supporting the Second Modification whereas additionally being an advocate of stricter firearm legal guidelines.
The actor has a protracted historical past of activism in his house state and even thought-about operating for governor final 12 months.
He in the end determined to not run for workplace in November.
“As a easy child born within the little city of Uvalde, Texas, it by no means occurred to me that I'd in the future be thought-about for political management,” McConaughey mentioned on the time. “It’s a humbling and galvanizing path to ponder. It is usually a path that I'm selecting to not take at this second.”
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