Responding to Matthew McConaughey's Gun Control Editorial

Punishing the innocent by restricting their defenses doesn’t reduce the number of killers, it increases the number of victims.

The Statesman published an editorial by Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey this morning on gun control. The massacre broke the nation’s collective heart, but the pain is understandably more visceral for people who were born in or live in the community.

While I appreciate that McConaughey doesn’t enter this discussion with the usual ad hominem to which we…