Posted on 10/12/2022 8:10:40 AM PDT by rktman
Matthew McConaughey stepped into the gun control spotlight in the wake of Uvalde. As a native of the city, he was an obvious choice to be the face of the narrative. He’s famous, good-looking, and a respected celebrity without a long history of scandal and a nice guy image.
However, making it in Hollywood and being able to understand the nuances and differences in various political positions are very different things.
McConaughey didn’t really accomplish much of anything with his efforts. Now, he’s speaking out about it and what he has to say actually betrays his ignorance.
Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey reflected on the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting in May 2022 and his subsequent White House address.
McConaughey wrote an opinion piece for Esquire detailing his emotional connection to the massacre in the town he grew up in until he was 10 years old.
“I’m sickened by the spate of mass shootings in America — especially those at schools, which are supposed to be some of the safest of spaces for our children and the closest extensions of our own homes. But this time felt different, more personal,” McConaughey wrote of returning home to Uvalde, Texas. “Now, for the first time, my innocent childhood memories of Uvalde felt naive — more like dreams than memories, slightly hazy and suddenly overly sacred. Times like these make us all feel a bit more foolish. We hug our kids a little longer, knowing their innocence won’t last as long as ours did, hoping their children won’t know the same.”
…
McConaughey was forced to confront a truth about American politics: “It sometimes feels like politicians don’t really want solutions, because solutions would put them out of a job.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
McConaughey is thinking with his wife’s boobs these days.
Schools are “supposed to be safer” in the same way that Marxist dictatorships are “supposed to be utopic”. Turns out gun control isn’t any better at preventing violence than price controls are at stopping shortages.
Cast him in a big Hollywood action movie with Alec Baldwin.
As he lives his life behind gated Hollywood mansions and chauffered limousines.
F off Matt.
I think he lives in Austin and is a professor at UT.
MM has a nephew named Miller Lite McConaughey.
Do you think his family are going to give up their guns?
Illegal immigration might just have something to do with that Matt.
Does he realize that teacher’s unions and lies that kept kids out of school for 2 years are more of an overall threat to tens of millions of kid’s health than mass shootings?
The unions poison close to 80% of the kids, shootings, well .0000001
Boys are different these days, Matty. They are deprived of strong, loving fathers, pumped full of mind-altering drugs, and saturated with resentment and despair.
Guns, however, are the same as they’ve always been.
Of course not. He just wants us to give up ours.
I know if I want an informed opinion on the important issues of the day, I go to Esqire.
😂😂😂👌
This might be a popular opinion, but it is really more like a chicken or the egg question. Many people don't want solutions that require them to make responsible decisions. Many people don't put raising their family first. Consider the Uvalde school shooter. He was neglected by his drug abusing mother-he was a troubled kid who had exhibited alarming behavior and had expressed a fascination with guns. His absentee father had an assault conviction on his record.
All in all, we see time after time that these shooters are troubled, some have diagnosed mental illness and are on medication-which they don't always take. Yet, each time there is an event, the politicians and the guns are blamed. Blaming parents for failing to properly raise their children is extremely unpopular, but contains a great deal more of the solution than restricting guns.
He’s a beta cuck. Could have been Alpha, but let poontang and Hollywood ruin his brain.
I like his movies, but obviously he has forgotten the three rules of being a popular celebrity:
1. Shut up and sing.
2. Shut up and act.
3. If you cannot sing or act, shut up.
These silver screen pretenders, and electrically amplified troubadours would have a very difficult time making a living if their ‘fans’ were like my wife and I. Even as single young adults, and then married, we didn’t go to concerts, and rarely bought a record or tape; and only went to theaters about 4 or 5 times a year. And we tossed the tv before we turned 30 (1983). Quit going to movies around that time as well.
Sounds boring, but we found other interests, and our two sons learned how to be creative and entertain themselves.
” in the town he grew up in until he was 10 years old.”
just like every white liberal, they move out when the demographics change. Uvalde is majority mexican now. The same way white lib parents get their parents out of LA public schools because of the majority hispanic kids.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.