Gun violence is ascending in an abrupt crescendo; people, those familiar and those who are strange, are victims of crimes that involve guns. The capability of firearms increasing the risk of aggression and crime is actualized by their presence. In the United States, American citizens are but roughly four percent of the world's population yet own 42 percent of all of the world's firearms. Lethal violence in the United States and its prevalence is contingent with the rise of firearms in our communities. Families around the country have felt the ache, the bitter consequence of an irresponsible gun owner, at a worrying frequency.

The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has concluded that over 60% of homicides in the United States include firearms, over 60% of suicides involved firearms, and less than 1% of defensive gun instrumentation occurs in the United States. The presence of firearms has undoubtedly exacerbated lethal gun violence in American communities, and if this is maintained by study and research, why are the homicide rates that include firearms increasing?

Through a political scientist lens, there is an explanation for the conservative-constitutionalist behavior in opposing gun reform. The right to bear arms and possession of guns is embedded in American history and sovereignty. It's necessity cannot be measured by its modern-day use but rather slightly explained by the paranoia towards a corrupt government. Although this paranoia is reasonable with a 9 percent approval rating of congress by U.S voters, many objectionists of gun reform generalize any motion to amend existing gun laws as an arbitrary action by the federal government. Some gun rights activists go further and claim that the Obama administration "wants to take your guns away" and this particular perspective is now a dining table phenomenon.

Early January, President Obama delivered a speech that outlined the administrations plans to approach and even propose a remedy to gun violence. Skeptics were first to emasculate Barack Obama's tears while making remarks about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, where 20 children were robbed of their lives. Cooperating with the Department of Justice and the U.S Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, the executive branch has called for stricter supervision of already existing gun laws. What Obama's executive order entails is working within his executive means to apply the needed enforcement on gun control that the legislative branch at the federal level has failed to address. The absence of congressional activity on acknowledging the problem of increasing gun violence is partly due to special influence and a politicized House and Senate. Bills are proposed and constantly polarized due to ideological warfare between representatives and senators that owe their votes to external entities such as The National Rifle Association, a gun rights group. Consequently, the lack of employing and passing legislative measures to mitigate the aggressive condition that firearms create.

The substance of the Obama administration's executive actions in detail has the effect that is constitutional and within the jurisdiction of enforcing laws. The executive actions include the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives expanding with over 200 new staff members to analyze and conduct the rising demand of background checks due to an increase in gun sales. This is a significant change in the current system of supervising firearms due to the fact that prior, the background check system was understaffed and under-resourced. When a licensed gun dealer runs a background check before the distribution of a gun, the background check can be deemed inconclusive and thus gains another three days of review by the FBI. However, since there are so many background checks to analyze and so few agents to conduct an analysis, the background check can die and the gun dealer can continue to sell a firearm. This is what allowed the teen who killed nine in a historic black church located in Charleston, South Carolina, to obtain a firearm due to the FBI not receiving his records, which consisted of drug felonies, from state and local agencies. This is a dangerous precedent that will hopefully be solved with a dramatic increase in funding towards the background check system.

The new executive actions also include lifting barriers for the Department of Health and Human Services in obtaining mental health records from states. This at first may seem obvious and a given, yet many states have politicized gun violence and do not comply with federal statutes. If a doctor has concluded that a citizen is unfit and incapable of driving a car, then in the same instance it should be ruled that such a citizen should not own a firearm and this summary should be reported to federal agencies through the state. However, this is characterized by opponents of gun control as too invasive and arbitrary. Congressional Senator Marco Rubio proclaimed that "Obama wants to take your guns away" in a presidential campaign advertisement. No one is taking anybodies guns away. This is abhorrent. The government is not going to take away your guns. The federal government has the objective to make the process of purchase and sale much safer and more legitimate.

Nonetheless, many argue that guns are not the problem. Rather, it is the people who commit civil atrocities who are to blame instead of guns. This is an unfortunate inconvenience of truth, wherein guns only feed the aggressive and defensive culture of American civilization. Entertainment is a more suitable way to compel citizens to purchase overpriced shoes, buy the latest installments of modern day technology, and resent being an active citizen. We become angry at forces of nature but we abhor doing anything about it. Black American communities are prosecuted for the internal corruption and for the youth that are raised without a fighting chance for their environment, yet we blame these same communities that have been historically segregated away from the rest of society. There are incessant cries from every community in the country for the nation to be a safer and less violent place, and the Obama administration will never fix our nature, yet it can try to begin to address our condition.