“Uvalde, Texas is where I was born.

This is where my mother taught preschool, less than a

mile

from Robb elementary school.

This is where I learned responsible use of weapons.

It was from there that I was telephoned when the news of the tragedy fell.

On Tuesday, it was local and as an “angry” gun owner that Matthew McConaughey played VIP guests at the press conference for White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, two weeks after the shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

Behind the White House desk, the actor pleaded for “responsible” firearms reform, rejecting back-to-back elected Democrats and Republicans.

VIDEO: Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey delivers an appeal for "gun responsibility" from the White House podium, in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde pic.twitter.com/8X4C8HC9kv

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“We are far from being as divided as we are led to believe,” said McConaughey, who has maintained the suspense in recent months about a possible candidacy for governor of Texas, before finally giving up.

Moved, the actor alternately showed portraits of deceased children and drawings of survivors.

Congressional negotiations

Asking Congress to adopt "common sense" measures, he pleaded for raising the legal age to buy an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21, expanding the "red flag laws", which allow confiscating a weapon from a person at risk, and tightening the "background checks" (background checks).

Measures close to those requested by Joe Biden last week.

A group of nine Democratic and Republican senators are currently negotiating a compromise.

If an outright ban or an increase in the age to buy assault weapons seems excluded, any progress would be progress, in a Congress blocked on the subject since 2004.

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