Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)-The Biden-Harris administration has more than 70 staffers working on its social media and external communications, yet they have proven completely incapable of delivering a single message that the American people will believe and support, so they turned to Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey to sell their gun control package to the American people.
The vaunted White House press briefing room, where news of wars declared and wars ended has first been broken to the American people, was the setting Tuesday afternoon for what may be one of McConaughey’s most memorable performances.
Wearing an open-collar white shirt and bespoke black blazer, McConaughey, 52, told the American people of the need for “responsible gun ownership,” which he said includes expanded background checks and much more – all taken from Joe Biden’s gun-control playbook.
“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,” McConaughey told the White House press corps, who sat completely silent during his remarks, which he read from a script.
McConaughey, who is from Uvalde, Texas – the scene of the most recent mass murder that claimed the lives of 19 children and two heroic teachers – said he immediately drove to his hometown with his family once he learned of the carnage. He met with victims’ families, consoled them during their grief, and promised he would make sure their loved ones did not die in vain.
“We are in a window of opportunity right now that we have not been in before. A window where it seems like real change, real change can happen,” he said.
McConaughey’s flawless delivery of prepared remarks wooed even the once conservative FOX News, which described his call for additional firearm restrictions as an “emotional plea,” and a “smart move by the White House.”
Takeaways
At a 2018 March for Our Lives,” McConaughey called for a complete ban of modern sporting rifles, which he called “assault weapons.” He has been very vocal in his calls for additional gun control and is a powerful anti-gun advocate. So, the news actors at FOX are not the only ones who believe it was a “smart move by the White House” to bring in a fresh face – in this case a well-tanned one – to help sell gun control to the skeptical American people. Certainly, neither Biden nor his latest press secretary is up to the task. Biden struggles to read from a teleprompter without a gaffe, and Karine Jean-Pierre can’t answer a single question without reciting it from a voluminous briefing book.
During McConaughey’s presentation, it became clear the White House could not have picked a better messenger. However, it is the message that has not changed. While there is little doubt of McConaughey’s sincerity or standing to make his case, his calls for expanded background checks, infringing upon the Second Amendment rights of 18-20-year-olds, waiting periods and national Red-Flag laws might as well have been delivered by Biden himself. He has been advocating for these infringements for decades.
It is clear that the Biden-Harris administration is using the Uvalde mass murder as a cudgel for even more Second Amendment infringements. After all, that’s what they do, but the unprecedented use of an award-winning actor shows how desperate they have become. The polls show no one trusts them, and even fewer think they’re doing a credible job.
As he finished his remarks, McConaughey quickly turned and began to walk off the stage – exactly as we have seen Biden do time and time again – as an unknown member of the White House press corps shouted one question: “Were you grandstanding up there, sir?”
I really wish McConaughey would have answered the question.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
What he said…
“America has become a country where professional athletes and entertainers have been mistaken for people of importance.” Robert Anson Heinlein
Who would recognize fiction better than the “Dean of Science Fiction.”
McConaughey has made his living as a actor making movies. Killer Joe, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ,Newtown boys ,Lone Star, Scorpion Spring,Tropic Thunder,Free State Of Jones,Dark Tower ,Mud,Batman ,Time To Kill ,
This man is like all the rest of the hollywood actors that are used for nothing more than their ability to present a message.
Matthew Mcconaughey is a hypocrite of the worst kind
“DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO”
Emotional pleas are not reason based pleas and are not. a foundation for effective public policy. I am astounded at just how quickly some people are willing to throw away the liberty that I bled for at the first sign of trouble. But that is modern entitled America. Everything is a fantasy show. Solutions to spiritual problems are just a legislative act away. And the inanimate object is the object of scorn when really it is Satan’s nefarious works working through the hands of progressives and leftists who create these monsters in the first place. Rant and rage all you… Read more »
McConaughey has made his living as a actor making movies, a lousy actor at that. I try my best to skip his flicks now I’ll try harder. Hypocrite like the rest.
I’m so tired of half measures. Let’s pass a law outlawing criminals and be done with it.
Not saying history repeats itself but:
6/18/20: “New Zealand tightened its gun laws on Thursday with a registry that it had promised after a gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year in the country’s worst peace-time mass shooting.”
6/08/22: “People are now demanding the Prime Minister to declare a crime emergency and allow businesses to own weapons in order to defend themselves and their businesses.” “This crime waves even comes after a record investment into seizing illegal firearms, hence the growing calls for action”
Raising the legal age for purchase of a firearm to 21 years of age, while seeming reasonable is the camel’s nose under the tent. From there, there will be more demands by antis for gun restrictions. All this leads to their final goal of europeanizing gun ownership in America. Bye-bye Second Amendment.
Notice the programmed pavlovian puppets performing they’re tribute to they’re Janus of Rome pagan gods of they’re secret society on cue.
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants”
Albert Camus
Nazi’s slogan; “Fur Ihre Sicherheit” (it’s for your safety) has always been the Battle Cry of Tyrants & Oppressor’s of Freedom / Liberty
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”Plato
He can have all the opinions he wants it’s the American way, however we don’t have to agree with what he said.
Hollywood is a land of make believe and that’s all, what gives him the knowledge to tell others how our laws should be and what is best for others.
We have enough laws that aren’t being enforced, we don’t need anymore new one’s.