Actor Matthew McConaughey, after speaking openly asking for an action after the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, has published a letter proposing several actions on “responsibility with weapons”.
Describing himself as “a gun-owning father, the son of a kindergarten teacher and a Texan from Uvalde,” McConaughey urges Americans to stand up for a change, calling for “responsibility with weapons.”
The plaintiff’s requests include the activation of background checks, a law that allows authorities to issue a warning to revoke a person’s right to own weapons called Red Flag Laws, and an increase in the minimum age to own semi-automatic weapons for 21 years.
The long letter was published Monday in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. There, the actor says he does not support gun control, but “gun responsibility”. “I believe that responsible and law-abiding Americans have the Second Amendment right, enshrined in our founders, to bear arms,” McConaughey wrote.
“I also believe that we have a cultural obligation to take measures to delay the senseless killing of our children. The debate on gun control has led to nothing but status quo. It’s time to talk about gun liability, ”she continued. “There is a difference between control and responsibility. The first is a mandate that can violate our law; the second is a duty that will keep you. “
McConaughey then presents a four-step plan to increase gun liability. He says he writes to “find common ground” on the problem and says that as it stands, things don’t work out.
Read the full translation of the letter below:
“I am a father, son of a kindergarten teacher and an American. I too was born in Uvalde, Texas.
That’s why I’m writing this.
I believe that responsible and law-abiding Americans have the Second Amendment right, enshrined in our founders, to bear arms. I also believe that we have a cultural obligation to take steps to reduce the senseless killing of our children. The gun control debate has led to nothing but the status quo. It’s time to talk about gun liability.
There is a difference between control and responsibility. The first is a mandate that can violate our law; the second is a duty that will keep you. There is no constitutional barrier to gun liability. Keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous people isn’t just the responsible thing to do, it’s the best way to protect the Second Amendment. We can do both.
Depraved acts of violence, with firearms as their weapon of choice, are tearing apart families, tearing apart people’s faith and tearing the fabric of our society. We have an epidemic of indiscriminate mass shootings, of parents burying their children, of inaction and exchange of money. Preventing unnecessary loss of life is not a partisan issue.
The need for mental health care, school safety, the prevalence of sensational media coverage, and the decaying state of American values are long-term social factors that need to be addressed, but right now we don’t have the luxury of time. We must focus on corrections and countermeasures that can also immediately reduce the tragedies of armed violence that have become all too common in our country.
We have to make the lost lives count. Our leaders must make bipartisan concessions on some reasonable steps to restore responsible ownership of weapons in our country.
I believe:
1) All arms purchases must require a background check. 88% of Americans support it, including many responsible Texans who own firearms. … I met them. Roof, who killed nine people in a black church in South Carolina in 2015, got his gun without a thorough background check due to legal technicality. The system has failed. Gun control activists call it a loophole. I call it incompetence.
2) Unless you are in the military, you must be 21 to purchase an assault rifle. I’m not talking about 12 gauge shotguns or lever action shotguns. I’m talking about the weapon of choice of the mass murderer, the AR-15. The killer in my hometown of Uvalde bought two AR-15s for his 18th birthday, just days before he killed 19 students and two teachers. He obeyed the law. If the law were different, maybe I wouldn’t write it today.
3) The red flag laws must be the law of the country. These measures, which are already in place in 19 states and in Washington, DC, authorize loved ones or law enforcement to petition the courts to temporarily prevent individuals who may pose a threat to themselves or others from purchasing. or access firearms. These laws must respect due process of law, judicial oversight, and hold accountable people who may abuse these laws.
4) We need to establish a national waiting period for assault rifles. Individuals often acquire weapons in a fit of anger, harming themselves or others. Studies show that mandatory waiting periods have reduced homicides by 17%. Gun suicides account for the majority of gun deaths in the United States. A waiting period for the purchase of an assault rifle is an acceptable sacrifice for responsible gun owners when it can prevent a crime of passion or mass suicide.
Integrating gun safety training, safe storage proposals, and strengthening school safety are also beneficial, but they are not just government solutions. Companies, private organizations and responsible gun owners all have an important role to play.
I want to be clear. I have no illusions that these policies will solve all of our problems, but if responsible solutions can prevent some of these tragedies from reaching another community without destroying the Second Amendment, it is worth it.
This is not a choice between weapons or unarmed. It is the responsible choice. It is the reasonable choice. It is an essentially American choice: where I have the right to be myself, you have the freedom to be yourself and we have a responsibility to be America.
To find common ground on this issue, both sides will have to respond to the call and seek the higher ground of our collective responsibility.
Business as usual is not working. “That’s how it is” cannot be an excuse. The heinous bloodshed of innocent people cannot be made bearable. If we keep standing still, we are living a lie. With every right comes a duty.
To ourselves, our children and our fellow Americans, we have a duty to be responsible gun owners. Please do your part and protect the Second Amendment through gun responsibility. It is time for true leaders to step forward and do what’s right so that we can continue living. “
The letter follows a statement from McConaughey calling for action, shortly after a gunman used guns to kill two teachers and 19 students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24. The person responsible for the mass murder was Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old man who died after an exchange of gunshots with the police.
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