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Matthew McConaughey met with leaders on Capitol Hill as lawmakers maintain bipartisan discussions on gun reform laws after a slew of mass shootings.

The go to comes after the actor, a local of Uvalde, Texas, the place 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed in a taking pictures at Robb Elementary College final month, argued that legislators ought to concentrate on gun “accountability” relatively than gun “management” in an article printed Monday within the Austin American-Statesman.

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY CALLS FOR GUN ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ NOT ‘CONTROL’

“Had the possibility to fulfill Uvalde native @McConaughey in DC right this moment to debate the horrific mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary in addition to the bigger drawback of gun violence in America. We, like so many others, agree that gun security reform is required — I will hold working to make that occur,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) tweeted Monday.

McConaughey expressed help for elevating the minimal age to 21 nationwide to buy so-called assault weapons, specifically AR-15s, and implementing a nationwide crimson flag system. He additionally backs background checks and a nationwide ready interval.

“I wish to be clear. I’m not beneath the phantasm that these insurance policies will clear up all of our issues, but when accountable options can cease a few of these tragedies from placing one other group with out destroying the Second Modification, they’re value it,” McConaughey wrote. “This isn’t a selection between weapons or no weapons. It’s the accountable selection.”

Following the Uvalde taking pictures, McConaughey visited his hometown to fulfill with members of the grieving group and a few of the members of the family of the victims.

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Talks of gun reform legal guidelines have been led by leaders on either side, together with Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Thom Tillis (R-NC). Among the insurance policies being mentioned embrace expanded background checks, crimson flag measures, college security enhancements, and extra.