Matthew McConaughey is addressing President Biden signing a gun control bill following the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the actor's hometown. On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed the «Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,» which enacts commonsense gun laws and provides funding for mental health support and anti-violence programs.McConaughey took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the measure, saying, «While this bill isn't perfect, it is a shining example of a great American potential and political virtue: the act of compromise and validating an opposing viewpoint.»In his eight-slide post to the social media platform, captioned, «America… the land of AND,» McConaughey addressed the Second Amendment, the heartbreaking loss in Uvalde, and American politics at large. A post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey)«This bill will save innocent lives by keeping guns out of the law breaking and irresponsible hands that are trying to hijack the Second Amendment,» he wrote. «Our government took a step in the right direction.
James Gunn Calls Out Right-Wing News Site ‘Conflating’ Hollywood Movies With Real-Life Gun Violence
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James Gunn wants people to stop blaming Hollywood for gun violence.
In a thread on Twitter, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” director slammed right-wing website Breitbart News for a tweet about Matthew McConaughey’s recent White House address advocating for common-sense gun-control legislation in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting.
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“Star Trek” actor George Takei had originally shared a screenshot of the Breitbart tweet, which noted that McConaughey “has used 19 guns in 11 movies over 25 years, according to the Internet Movie Firearms Database.”
“What’s your damn point?” Takei had asked, to which Gunn responded that the Breitbart tweet was an attempted distraction.
“There are violent stories & video games in most every country in the world,” Gunn wrote. “But only in the US is it harder to sell a donut than a gun.”
He added, “Stop conflating fictional guns in movies with common sense gun legislation.”
Gunn continued his thread by responding to another Twitter user who had brought up last year’s accidental fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust”.
Calling that situation “a case of mind-boggling incompetence on nearly everyone’s part” that “resulted in the only death from a firearm on a set in years,” Gunn noted that, in that incident’s wake, the film industry has endeavoured “to make sets safer through increased regulations.”
“Over 1500 children & adults have died from US mass shootings since 2009,” he added.
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Gunn also responded to another user
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