{"id":1506940,"date":"2022-06-07T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506940"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:04:33","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-fights-back-tears-remembering-uvalde-school-shooting-victims-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matthew-mcconaughey-fights-back-tears-remembering-uvalde-school-shooting-victims-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Fights Back Tears Remembering Uvalde School Shooting Victims At White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmatthew-mcconaughey-fights-back-tears-remembering-uvalde-school-shooting-victims-at-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Actor Matthew McConaughey gave an emotional speech remembering the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victims and calling for change at the White House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the press briefing with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, McConaughey met with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. regarding efforts to pass gun control legislation. He began his speech at the podium with an emotional tribute to the 19 children and two adults <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/24\/uvalde-consolidated-independent-school-district-texas-elementary-active-shooter-reports\/\">killed<\/a> in May after a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could feel the shock in the town. You could feel the pain, the denial, the disillusion, anger, blame, sadness, loss of lives, dreams halted,\u201d McConaughey said Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/29\/matthew-mcconaughey-visits-uvalde-school-shooting\/\">recounting<\/a> his visit to his home town of Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey fought back tears throughout his speech, a large portion of which was about the victims of the mass <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/uvalde-teacher-arnulfo-reyes-played-dead-robb-elementary-school-shooting\/\">shooting<\/a>. He detailed how one young girl killed in the massacre hoped to be a marine biologist. Another, he said, holding up a drawing made by that victim, had dreams about attending art school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what every one of these parents wanted, what they asked us for?\u201d McConaughey said during his speech. \u201cWhat every parent separately expressed in their own way to Camila and me? That they want their children\u2019s dreams to live on. That they want their children\u2019s dreams to continue, to accomplish something after they are gone. They want to make their loss of life matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world-famous actor at one point banged his fist on the podium in frustration. In another part of his speech, he detailed how the bodies of the victims needed \u201cextensive restoration\u201d and that one little girl was able to be identified because she was wearing green converse sneakers with a hand-drawn heart on the right toe. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/people-being-incredible-uvalde-texas-massacre\/\">(RELATED:\u00a08 Examples Of People Being Incredible In The Face Of The Texas Massacre)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough with the counterpunching. Enough of the invalidation of the other side. Let\u2019s come to the common table that represents the American people. Find a middle ground, a place where most of us Americans live anyway, especially on this issue, cuz I promise you, America \u2013 we are not as divided as we are being told we are,\u201d McConaughey said.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, McConaughey focused on some gun control measures while also pushing for initiatives like investing in mental health care. In particular, he argued that the country needs background checks, red flag laws, a waiting period to purchase rifles and a higher age limit for purchasing AR-15s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to invest in mental health care,\u201d McConaughey said. \u201cWe need safer schools. We need to restrain sensationalized media coverage. We need to restore our family values. And we need responsible gun ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to get some real courage and honor our immortal obligations instead of our party affiliations,\u201d he also declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Matthew McConaughey gave an emotional speech remembering the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victims and calling for change at the White House on Tuesday.Prior to joining the press briefing with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}