Obama's Gun Control Policy

Obama's Gun Control Policy

Introduction

The president of the United States of America “Barack Obama” has been striving for the safety and security of children and the communities of the America in terms of this “Gun Control Policy”. The main theme of this policy is to reduce the gun violence within the country to ensure the security concerns of the people (www.whitehouse.gov).

This plan needs to be approved at the Congress level for implementing it across the country. The president has been taking both the legislative and the executive actions for making it certain exploitation. The main aspect of these actions is to ensure the information sharing in a better way as to properly communicate the exploitation all around (Hogan, 2013).

Discussion

It is a fact that every individual of this world is living under the threats of violence and terrorism. Every one's life is at risk, and none is able to control this ever-increasing violence in any way. Similar is the case with the people of America as the whole nation is suffering greatly at the hands of such deadly dangerous people. The main approach of such people is to use guns for committing the crimes and horrific acts of violence. The president's step towards the gun controlling will be a positive impact on the society in terms of violence controlling, although it will not eliminate the aggression completely (www.whitehouse.gov).

Overview of the Policy Requirement

The policy was planned and made public after the incident of “Sandy Hook Elementary School” on December 14th 2012. The person responsible for this act of violence was Adam Lanza. Before the act, he was just playing games, and none of his act had revealed his deadly intentions. On December 2012, he took too much armor with him, involving about 30 round magazines for his semi-automatic Bushmaster, around 200 caliber model XM15 rifles, and a large amount of bullets for his shotguns and handguns (edition.cnn.com). The aggression of Lanza is evident from the fact that he had killed his 52-years old mother at first, when she was lying on her bed. If a person can kill his mother, how might he have mercy on the little children? He was totally insane. With this much armor and his intensely aggressive behavior and attitude, Lanza had shot 26 people at a time. He had gone to the Sandy Hook Elementary School for meeting his deadly intentions. Among these 26 people, there were 20 children of around 6 to 7 years. He had shot them in a short period of just five minutes, firing his collection of bullets roughly after every two seconds (Candiotti, et.al 2013).

According to the report, he was not wearing even a bulletproof jacket for his safety. He just entered the school from the front door and then killed numerous students and teachers fatally. That was not his only purpose; he ended in shooting himself from a Glock 10mm handgun (Candiotti, et.al 2013). This tragedy led the government to take strict measures regarding such violence in ...