Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey has gone to the White House to make an impassioned plea for gun control. The star whose hometown of Uvalde is at the centre of America's latest massacre told the country it is not about banning guns but preserving life.
Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has called on Congress to "reach a higher ground" and pass gun control legislation in honour of the children and teachers killed in last month's shooting rampage at a primary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.
"We want secure and safe schools and we want gun laws that won't make it so easy for the bad guys to get the damn guns," McConaughey said. Also on Tuesday, the son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on Black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, last month, called on Congress to act.
The actor, who won the 2014 Oscar for his lead performance in Dallas Buyers Club, said he and his wife drove to Uvalde the day after the massacre and spent time with the families of some of the victims."They want to make their loss of life matter," McConaughey said. "These are the same green Converse, on her feet, that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting," McConaughey said.
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