First thing I thought of. No more movies with guns, right Matchew?
Posted on 05/25/2022 8:30:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Well, that was a statement equal to the insignificance of his life and shallowness of his persona.
Ok Matthew, lets start with the violence the entertainment industry profits off of.
Ban Gun Free Zones
Sound reasoning, BUT it is not the hallmark of irrational emotion driven fools. The demonrat party has needed the American people dumbed down and at each others throats to continue the demonrat empowerment. Divide and conquer is a strategy of the devil’s own.
I am going to write matt a letter telling him that I am leading a group pushing to make killing people illegal and he can help by making a charitable donation
Matthew McConaughey says nothing for the people shot every weekend in Chicago.
Is he like every other Democrat that are just pussyfooting around pushing for total 100% repeal the 2ed A.
When they increase the use of phrases like “a serious discussion” or “Seriously evaluate our options”..
Understood...I know most of us know that here, but sometimes it is good to post the obvious as people who may stumble across this thread and read it aren’t getting that from the culture and voices around them.
I though about control. The left can’t control our border, drugs pour in.to our country. 107.000 deaths , mostly young adults. That is 293 deaths per day. The equivalent of 15 Texas shootings every day 365 days a year. Oh, that is adults. No there are 10 years old and younger OD’ng in class rooms. If we can’t control our border how do we control a nation? If we can’t stop drugs how do we stop guns? Are not drugs illegal? Is not possessing drugs illegal.
why do we get so many idiots in public office or media?
it would at least be illuminating and useful to debate an intelligent leftist
When he starred in “The Free State of Jones” did he not realize that such a state would be impossible without guns?
There were plenty of firearms floating around in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Getting them was much easier too.
You didn’t have mass school shootings.
We do now. What has changed since then?
Could it be perhaps that our cultural changes have sent the message that young/innocent life has no value?
How could that have happened?
First thing I thought of. No more movies with guns, right Matchew?
Matthew McConaughey,
I respectfully disagree. When I was young, even kids carried guns and hunted. Cars and Trucks had rifles when I went to high school in the morning. Yet, there just weren’t any mass shootings. The guns, by themselves, didn’t get up and shoot anyone.
What has changed isn’t the firearms. Simply put, it’s the people. People are now desensitized to violence, and they feel entitled. Entitled to inflict on others to get what they want. This entitlement began, IMHO, about the same time that the SCOTUS approved Roe v Wade. Is that a coincidence? At first glance it seems ludicrous to connect the two, but we should consider this.
I have considered how Roe v Wade made so many put faith in big government. No longer interested in local control, as you could ‘legislate’ your problems away on a federal level. No longer were people dependent upon their communities and community service, they could count on faceless Federal Government to solve their problems. That made people believe that they didn’t have to ensure their children got an education, only that the Federal government subsidized them for having children. They didn’t have to have religion or be religious, because they never had to count on a ‘church’ group to help them when times went bad. Federal Government replaced responsibility, local government importance, and ultimately, even God and sense of Community. Federal overreach and Judicial legislation has fast tracked socialism. Socialism, not only ‘redistributes’ wealth via government, it has an ominous side effect. It also ‘redistributes’ RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY.
Here is my point. People no longer feel responsible, accountable, or feel any ‘community’ or part of a community. People are isolated, entitled, and abstracted from other people. Violent outbursts are the expected outcomes of these Federal Government overreach.
I am certain people like you will continue to blame the firearms. I am certain that until we address empowering people, reteaching critical thinking skills, and forcing people to be in a community, these events will only accelerate. You can’t control firearm violence until you control the Federal Government, IMHO. The Federal Government employees have already sunk a Presidency duly elected to do so, even if it means: illegal spying, illegal voting, and illegal lawfare. The epidemic is not cannot be controlled because Federal Government is uncontrolled.
Therefore, I respectfully disagree with your opinion about if this epidemic can be controlled.
“Instead, he admonished Americans for “failing to be responsible for the rights our freedoms grant us.””
Okay, idiot, explain exactly how “Americans” have felled to live up to their responsibility. Do the police get accused of lack of responsibility every time a bank is robbed? Ad infinitum.
He and the others should contact their democrat party reps and ask why they did what you see below.
$54 billion to a corrupt country for money laundering but no money to protect our schools.
Democrats Introduce Bill To Get Police Out Of Schools
Wesley Whistle
Jul 31, 2020,01:04pm EDT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The deaths of Black people at the hands of police this year ignited an important conversation about police reform in this country. A number of proposals have been introduced to address various facets of policing at the federal, state, and local levels. This week, Democratic lawmakers in Congress added to that list with a bill to get police out of schools.
Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Elizabeth Warren (MA), along with Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA) and Ilhan Omar (MN), introduced the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act that would prohibit federal money to be used to fund police in schools. The lawmakers said this would prevent money from being diverted from important student service providers, like counselors and social workers.
The legislation has the backing of the two major teachers’ unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). It also has the support of a number of civil rights organizations, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Human Rights Campaign.
“Police shouldn’t be in schools,” said Senator Murphy in a statement. “There are plenty of better ways to ensure that our schools are safe places to learn, and Congress needs to understand how police in schools ends up with the wrong kids getting arrested for minor disciplinary actions and resources being drained from more effective programs.”
Systemic racism is a major problem in policing and Murphy pointed that out in regard to police in schools. He went on, “we know that Black and Latino kids are disproportionately affected, as they are referred and arrested at drastically higher rates than their white peers. If we are going to begin to tackle systemic racism in this country, we must start by addressing the racial inequities in our education system, and getting police out of classrooms is a necessary first step.”
Yes. It’s a leftist epidemic.
All of their horrid policies have led to these known wolf tragedies.
Man up, Matthew, and call out the REAL cause.
‘This Is an Epidemic We Can Control’
Obviously not
But, rather than spewing the hackneyed “somebody has to DO something” and “common sense gun control” pap of the left, he proposed there be well-trained and fully armed staff in every school.
GENUINE “common sense” that would go a long way in putting a stop to these horrific crimes.
However, in Woke America, that option/solution isn’t even open for discussion.
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