{"id":82034,"date":"2022-06-07T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82034"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:14:17","slug":"82034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82034","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/06\/07\/video-president-mcconaughey-makes-the-case-for-gun-control-compromise-at-the-white-house-n474692?cx_testId=1&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&amp;cx_artPos=1&amp;cx_experienceId=EXIO3RTI8YOF#cxrecs_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President McConaughey makes the case for gun control compromise at the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average joe doesn\u2019t pay attention to daily political claptrap, especially when it\u2019s coming from a figure as underwhelming and predictable as the president. But have an A-list actor revisiting the most gruesome and heartbreaking details of a mass shooting and some will perk up.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the true target of having McConaughey speak today isn\u2019t Congress but Greg Abbott. In an alternate universe, McConaughey is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/actor-matthew-mcconaughey-leads-gov--greg-abbott-in-hypothetical-matchup--poll-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running for governor against him right now<\/a>. He\u2019s sufficiently well-liked at home that having him champion a cause like this in an emotional way after a catastrophe might affect some Texans. If McConaughey ends up as an advocate for red-flag laws at the state level, that\u2019ll put pressure on Abbott.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He said we need laws to keep guns out of the hands of bad guys. Bad guys don\u2019t care about the laws. That\u2019s why they are bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thought Criminal Rob (@tripodcat73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tripodcat73\/status\/1534251499290624000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another point is; Why does anyone give these people &#8216;authority&#8217;? I could not care less what a movie actor believes I should or shouldn&#8217;t do, own, believe, or think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President McConaughey makes the case for gun control compromise at the White House The average joe doesn\u2019t pay attention to daily political claptrap, especially when it\u2019s coming from a figure as underwhelming and predictable as the president. But have an A-list actor revisiting the most gruesome and heartbreaking details of a mass shooting and some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82038,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82034\/revisions\/82038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}