The Academy Award–winning actor and Uvalde native makes an emotional plea for more congressional action on gun violence, sharing stories of those who were killed in last month's elementary school shooting.
He said his mother taught kindergarten less than a mile from Uvalde's Robb Elementary School, the site of the May 24 school shooting.
"Uvalde is where I was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun," he said.McConaughey said he and his wife drove back to Uvalde on the day after the shooting and spent time with the families of some of the victims and others directly impacted by the rampage."They want to make their loss of life matter," McConaughey said.He related the personalHe told the story of Maite Rodriguez, an aspiring marine biologist.
And then there was Eliahna "Ellie" Garcia, 10, who loved dancing and church and already knew how to drive tractors. Ellie was looking forward to reading a Bible verse at an upcoming church service when she was killed.