Matthew McConaughey visited the White House on Tuesday, where he spoke about the school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead last month, in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.
Fighting back tears, the actor spoke with both passion and emotion as he told the stories of those lost and pleaded with lawmakers to enact meaningful gun legislation reform.«You could feel the shock in the town.
You could feel the pain, the denial, the disillusion, anger, blame, sadness, loss of lives, dreams halted,» McConaughey said of the feeling present in Uvalde upon his and his family's visit to the town last week.McConaughey said that he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent most of the past week with the families of those who were killed in his hometown.
He showed pictures of their artwork, shared stories of their dreams and even brought a pair of green Converse sneakers that one little girl wore every day — sneakers that were sadly used to identify her body after the shooting.«Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle, most of the bodies so mutilated that only a DNA test or green Converse could identify them,» the impassioned actor stated. «Many children were left not only dead but hollow.
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