ABC
After meeting with President Joe Biden, Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, a native of Uvalde, Texas, made a passionate plea for gun reform at Tuesday’s White House press briefing, as Congress considers new legislation this week.
McConaughey, noting he was a gun owner, gave moving details of his meetings with grieving families last week in his hometown.
“The common thread — independent of the anger and the confusion and sadness — it was the same. How can these families continue to honor these deaths by keeping the dreams of these children and teachers alive? How can we make the loss of these lives matter?” he began.”While we honor and acknowledge the victims, we need to recognize that this time, seems that something is different.”
His wife, Camila Alves, sitting nearby, brought bright green Converse sneakers from one of the victims in the massacre at Robb Elementary school, Maite Rodriguez, who McConaughey said she wore because of her love of nature and how she wanted to be a marine biologist. He spoke of how the small shoes — with a heart on the right toe — were the “only clear evidence that could identify her.”
