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>> Actor Matthew McConaughey who is from you Baldy Texas spoke out about gun
violence in America, especially because it impacted his own hometown
where 19 elementary school kids were gunned down by a mass shooter.
And as you could hear in that video,
reporter from News Max asked him, are you grandstanding?
Now, I would venture to say that, some people actually have some
emotions actually are worried about human lives being lost or
concerned about children being gunned down in fourth grade classrooms and
aren't really engaging in grandstanding.
In fact, the only grandstanding I see is on behalf of the gun lobby and
weapons manufacturers in this country.
But the speech that Matthew McConaughey gave and
this was part of a white house press briefing was pretty powerful.
In fact, why don't we go to the next video where he discusses just
how important passing common sense gun legislation really is.
>> We also met, Anna and Danila, the mom and
Stepdad of nine year old Rodriguez and I made,
they wanted to be a marine biologist.
She was already in contact with corpus Christi University of A and M for
her future college enrollment, nine years old.
Mayday cared for the environment so strongly that when the city
asked her mother if they could release some balloons into the sky in her memory,
her mom said, no, maybe they wouldn't wanna litter,
made a war green high top converse with heart.
She had hand drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of
nature.
Camilla has got these shoes, can you show these shoes please wear these every day.
Green converse with a heart on the right toe.
These are the same green Converse on her feet.
That turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after
the shooting.
>> Well, he used, an assault weapon as you all know.
And what that does to a human body, especially a small fourth
grade human body makes the body unrecognizable to say the least.
So I don't know was he grandstanding when he talked about that?
Or should we ignore the fact that these children's bodies were
unrecognizable during this mass shooting using a weapon that an 18
year old should not have had access to.
>> Yeah, so, I'm really worried that the right wing
just doesn't have empathy as like, >> They don't 0%.
>> And I said, what do you do when 40% of the country says,
I don't care about your kids.
I mean, Tim Pool's going around saying, no, I got a hobby.
I don't care.
We're gonna have that story later later Johnson or one of the biggest Republican
senators in the countries, like when we were shooting varmints.
So what?
So you're right to shoot varmint Is more important than those
19 kids getting shredded.
>> Yes, that's what he's saying.
>> That's literally what they're saying.
And so then then people say, no, no,
you can't have an honest conversation about this topic.
Because it will hurt the feelings of the right wing if you call them monsters who
don't care about our kids being murdered.
Well, what's more important?
Whether the right wing gets offended or
that poor girl nine year old girl has a so many holes in her body that are so large,
they can't even tell who she is except for the sneakers.
Remember the other story of the little girl came out and said she had to
cover herself in the blood of her friend, so that she could play dead.
I care about her and her friend a billion times more than
the feelings of some scumbag Republican politician who says, yeah but
I got a couple of million dollars from the gun lobby.
So no I'm not gonna do any gun control.
I'm gonna let everybody have AR-15's and murder your kids daily.
I don't care about your feelings at all.
>> Are you grandstanding?
>> No, F News Max and f every right winger, who thinks I got a hobby,
I like having fun outside and you're dead.
Kids don't bother me at all your monsters.
You're terrible, terrible people.
Have I offended you, I don't care at all about you, I care about,
by the way you know what I care about your kids, I wanna protect them,
I want to protect your family.
Unlike you monsters, I have fun going right Kyle right now is put out a video of
him shooting this ridiculous machine gun today.
We're having fun, man, Joe Biden come and get it, man,
they're still doing it after the dead.
>> They don't care, they don't care. >> Kids are right there ten mass
shootings, ten massacres this weekend.
And just as many of the weekend before, they don't care about us.
>> I don't, >> They just don't pass the goddamn laws
and do not ever ask a Republican for permission.
They're never gonna give it to you.
They're monsters.
And so McConaughey, brilliant.
I love it.
But he did make a couple of mistakes in my opinion because he's not a politician.
So we'll talk about the strategy.
But first more on again, I don't wanna take anything away from it.
It was really important that we do this.
>> So he was spending, he and his wife have been talking to the families and
you've Aldi they've even talked to.
One of the cosmetologists who's been tasked with preparing
the victim's bodies for funerals.
And he discusses that in detail in the next video.
>> We also met a cosmetologist and she was well versed in mortuary makeup.
That's the task of making the victims appear as peaceful and
natural as possible for their open casket viewings.
These bodies, we're very different.
They needed much more than make up to be presentable.
They needed extensive restoration.
Why?
Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an a AR-15 rifle.
Most of the bodies so mutilated but only DNA test.
A green converse, could identify him.
>> But bunch of insecure weak men need those guns for their little hobbies.
So we can't pass common sense legislation like, just ensuring that if
you do buy that gun you should be cleared for mental health concerns or
any other possible criminal activity in your background.
No we can't have any of that.
We like the idea of being able to access these guns any kind of gun
we want easily with no restrictions whatsoever.
Even if it means that little children's bodies will end up mutilated by
these lunatics accessing the guns that they can get with.
Absolutely no background check.
No regulation, no nothing.
>> So, we're gonna go to McConaughey's suggestions in a second and
they're really good.
But you know what?
I'm gonna retract something I just said,
cuz as I was thinking about the things that he's proposing.
I realized for
a lot of them actually, a huge percentage of Republican voters agree.
So, let me be clearer the Republican politicians and
almost every Republican talk show hosts and pundits, they're the monsters.
Because the huge, huge percentage of gun owners and Republican voters say for
God's sake Goddammit do federal background checks.
God dammit do it already.
88% to 97% according to the polling of all Americans and
giant percentage of Republican voters to.
So fair is fair, I wanna be clear about who I'm calling monsters.
>> So let's go to the final video, which is about what we should do next.
And remember, if I remember correctly,
Matthew McConaughey is not some lefty, right?
And he was planning on running for governor of Texas but decided not to for
some reason or the other.
So, he is interested in politics.
There has been some commentary about where he stands politically.
He's not some progressive, he's not some leftist.
But nonetheless he sees a very real problem,
much like most Republican voters do and he wants solution.
So he talks about that in this next clip.
>> Look, we heard from, we heard from so many people, all right?
Families of the deceased mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, Texas, rangers,
hunters, border patrol and
responsible gun owners who won't give up their second amendment right to bear arms.
And you know what they all said.
We want secure and safe schools and we want gun laws that won't make it so
easy for the bad guys to get these damn guns.
So, we know it's on the table.
We need to invest in mental health care.
We need safer schools.
We need to restrain sensationalized media coverage.
We need to restore our family values.
We need to restore our American values.
And, We need responsible gun ownership, responsible gun ownership.
We 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.
>> And he's right about that.
But, that was exactly what spurred the reaction from James Rosen
over at News Max where he shouted at him are you grandstanding.
>> So there's a bunch of things he said that I don't agree with.
So, Holy Second Amendment, I don't think it's holy at all.
I think it's clearly says it's for a well regulated militia.
I got a question for you guys.
Was the you've Aldi shooter in a well regulated militia?
No one thinks he was in a well regulated militia, right?
So why was he allowed to own a gun?
I rest my case.
Second Amendment interpretation right now, is horse crap, okay?
I disagree with McConaughey on that, that's fine.
He throws in the family values there.
Cuz he's a little bit right leaning.
>> But he's also speaking to, like, he's speaking to a specific audience.
>> Yes. >> And
I think it's important to cater to the kind of messaging that's
effective with them.
>> Yeah, I'm leading up to.
No problem, okay?
I'll take it.
And then he, there's one critical thing he doesn't get that he's about to get,
which is, he said, it's okay, let's do this in a bipartisan way.
Let's get the republicans to do it.
Republicans ain't gonna do nothing, okay?
Republican politicians are the bad guys, period.
No, it's not about, my side versus his side.
No, there are facts.
They never vote for any of the things that he just said.
So, let me just be clear about the four things he proposed that the entire country
agrees to.
Again, normally, by the way, you watch youngsters were the only ones who ever
actually call out republican voters.
I don't have any problem doing that.
But not in this case.
In this case, Republican voters are totally fine.
And in fact, they want universal background checks,
raising the minimum age for purchasing an AR-15 to 21 a waiting period for
a AR-15's and implementation of red flag laws.
To me, that's a bare, bare minimum.
But everyone agrees to that,
except every single Republican politician in the country.
Every single one of them says no to each one of those proposals.
So, for God's sake, if you're a Republican,
why don't you ask your senators and your congressman?
I'm in favor of this, 80,
90% of Republicans are in favor of this, Goddamn it.
Why won't you do it?
And the answer is obvious.
But that's the one thing that the media is never gonna tell you.
It's the money.
They take money from the gun lobby.
Because people will say, no, Jake,
you don't understand the culture of America is very pro gone, etcetera.
Then why are so many Republicans in favor of federal background checks.
Why are they in favor of the red flag laws?
It's not in the culture.
That's mythology.
That's what the media says to you to distract you from the real issue.
Which is the money, the Republican senators have taken literally
millions of dollars from the gun lobby.
Their hands are soaked in blood.
So don't tell me that.
It's even, it's not even.
And again, if you watched the young Turks,
we hit their Democrats harder than anybody does.
And in this case there as usual cowards.
So no quarter for anyone, okay?
But is it the Democrats or the Republicans blocking gun control?
It is, indisputably the Republicans.
The Republican politicians have blood all over their hands and
they're not gonna do a goddamn thing.
They're not gonna listen to Matthew McConaughey.
They're just gonna send tucker, Carlson Sean Hannity and everybody else to go out
there and go, no, no, they're taking away your rights, your rights, your rights.
And Tim pool out there going saying I'm dead kids.
This that doesn't bother me at all.
I mean, he didn't say that doesn't bother me at all.
He just said it's not a concern enough for
me to lose my rights to an AR-15 or presumably.
And in fact, he did say this in a tweet to me or
nukes tanks, nukes shoulder fired missiles?
The Republicans wanna have fun.
And if it means your children getting murdered, they don't care.
The pundits don't care, and the politicians keep taking the money and
they don't care.
So be honest about what the real problem is.
But I love that McConaughey did this.
Because unfortunately we live in a celebrity culture.
If a Democrat had said it, the right wing would never believe it.
But, if a celebrity who's kind of right wing says it and
he throws in family values, it might be like, yeah.
But you've got to call out the politicians,
otherwise nothing's ever gonna get done.