{"id":1506973,"date":"2022-06-07T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506973"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:34:48","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-wont-win-texas-gun-owners-by-pushing-bidens-asinine-gun-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matthew-mcconaughey-wont-win-texas-gun-owners-by-pushing-bidens-asinine-gun-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Won\u2019t Win Texas Gun Owners By Pushing Biden\u2019s Asinine Gun Lies"},"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-wont-win-texas-gun-owners-by-pushing-bidens-asinine-gun-lies%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=1506973&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--><p>Since the White House was looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/13\/after-claiming-vaccine-campaign-would-be-led-by-local-leaders-white-house-taps-angsty-pop-star-olivia-rodrigo-to-kick-it-off\/\">yet another celebrity<\/a> to cover for the administration in a press briefing, actor Matthew McConaughey seems like the perfect choice to boost President Joe Biden\u2019s anti-gun agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the \u201cDallas Buyers Club\u201d star a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1534258598100013056?s=20&#038;t=M-rsKB0GcfyQRLGfvaRqzg\">gun-toting<\/a> Texas icon, but he\u2019s a Uvalde native who spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/matthew-mcconaughey-visits-hometown-uvalde-shooting-meet-families-rcna31024\">much of last week<\/a> mourning with the community and families who lost 19 children and two adults to an 18-year-old school shooter in May. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, McConaughey met with several congressmen on both sides of the political aisle including Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senate Majority Whip <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorDurbin\/status\/1533923288321343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1533923288321343488%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fmatthew-mcconaughey-visit-capitol-senate-gun-control-uvalde-2022-6\">Dick Durbin<\/a> to discuss what McConaughey has dubbed \u201cgun responsibility\u201d in the U.S.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-3.24.18-PM-967x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-3.24.18-PM-967x1024-1.png 967w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-3.24.18-PM-283x300-1.png 283w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-3.24.18-PM-768x813-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-3.24.18-PM.png 1196w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>During his White House appearance on Tuesday afternoon, McConaughey made it clear that what he means by \u201cgun responsibility\u201d is really Democrat-led gun control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need background checks. We need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws, and consequences for those who abuse them. These are reasonable practical tactical regulations,\u201d he said from the administration\u2019s bully pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more than one problem with McConaughey\u2019s approach to legislating guns out of Americans\u2019 hands. For one, federal background checks are already required for\u00a0anyone who buys a gun from a federally licensed firearm dealer. At the time of firearm purchase, buyers must divulge their personal information on an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/atf-form-4473-firearms-transaction-record-revisions\">ATF form<\/a>\u00a0and pass a background check conducted via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/services\/cjis\/nics\">National Instant Criminal Background Check System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey\u2019s proposal to raise the minimum age to purchase a rifle is also a popular suggestion often touted by the same Democrats who want to lower the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/434115-pelosi-says-she-backs-lowering-voting-age-to-16\/\">voting age to 16<\/a> and force young children to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/29\/genital-mutilation-supporters-are-upset-that-bella-hadid-got-a-nose-job-at-14\/\">undergo irreversible genital mutilation<\/a> if they are confused about their sex. The problem with that? The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rockinst.org\/gun-violence\/mass-shooting-factsheet\/\">average age<\/a>\u00a0of mass shooters is 33.\u00a0Even if Democrats successfully raise the gun purchasing age to a higher yet still arbitrary number, older shooters such as the 64-year-old who fired on a Las Vegas crowd attending a music festival will slip through the cracks. <\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed published on Monday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2022\/06\/06\/matthew-mcconaughey-editorial-time-responsible-choices-guns\/7523836001\/\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>, McConaughey wrote: \u201cI believe that responsible, law-abiding Americans have a Second Amendment right, enshrined by our founders, to bear arms.\u201d But his rhetoric from the White House podium suggested the opposite. <\/p>\n<p>McConaughey promoted red flag laws as a solution to deadly shootings but someone who actually believes in letting law-abiding Americans keep their Second Amendment rights shouldn\u2019t back faulty legislation that causes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Kopel%20Testimony1.pdf\">\u201cnearly a third of such orders\u201d<\/a> to be \u201cimproperly issued against innocent people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Evidence also suggests that states that already have red flag laws in place have failed to enforce them well enough to stop mass shooters. The Buffalo shooter who opened fire in a grocery store last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/05\/24\/new-york-red-flag-law-failed-buffalo-shooting-gun-violence\/\">wasn\u2019t stopped<\/a> by New York\u2019s red flag legislation. What good are, in McConaughey\u2019s words, \u201creasonable practical tactical regulations\u201d worth if they aren\u2019t working or being enforced? <\/p>\n<p>McConaughey is a likable guy for many Texans and Americans, especially if you\u2019re into fun accents,\u00a0which\u00a0is probably why he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/matthew-mcconaughey-teases-texas-governor-run-video-1606786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teased a gubernatorial run<\/a>\u00a0in the Lone Star State at one point. But his thoughts on guns are all wrong. They are just Democrat talking points <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/03\/debunking-bidens-tired-gun-rhetoric-and-lies\/\">(ahem, lies)<\/a> that will sacrifice the gun rights of innocent, law-abiding Americans to an administration that is dramatically failing at everything it touches including <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/joe-biden-is-not-a-victim-he-is-the-aggressor\/\">the economy, the southern border, foreign policy, and more. <\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the White House was looking for yet another celebrity to cover for the administration in a press briefing, actor Matthew McConaughey seems like the perfect choice to boost President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"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-1506973","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\/1506973","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506973\/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=1506973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}