Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Matthew McConaghey Speech Date:   6/7/2022 4:04:13 PM

I haven't seen it yet but I am always amazed at the forum given to people who make gobs of money pretending to be someone else and reading lines written by someone else.  Usually it's the left wing nuts that get that chance. I still recall seeing a panel discussion with some leftist comedian droning on about economics and someone asked her what her qualifications were and what degrees she held.  Hint: she didn't even have a high school diploma.  She became enraged and asked the questioner what her being an actor had to do with anything and he had the perfect response....it's the only reason you are here.  Literally she was there because she was a celebrity.  Otherwise no one in their right mind would take policy advice from her.

I'll listen to his speech and hopefully he made some sense.  But the reality in Uvalde is the perp passed a background check and bought the guns legally.  Waiting periods, making the legal age 21, red flag laws and all that are not going to prevent these kinds of acts.  And they don't address the real issue in our society which is the destruction of the family and the loss of faith in God.  What common attribute is there with all these crimes?  The person grew up in a dysfunctional family and there was no father in the home.  I hope he touched on the societal rot that is causing these people to act in such a horrendous manner.  Otherwise he may mean well but he is not offering anything to the discussion that will actually solve the problem.  And when all these ideas, if enacted and deemed constitutional, will not work and they will ask us to give up even more of our freedoms because their goal is to disarm law abiding Americans, not to solve the problems of mass shootings.  They are the vehicle to get them to their real goal.