Each of us has our opinions, but that’s not what’s wrong. The problem we are currently facing is that there is a huge mass of people all waiting to share their thoughts on guns and gun violence. We all have a solution, but nobody is willing to compromise. And this is why the problems our nation is facing still continue.

Everyone has their own opinions on the subject of gun control. Everyone has a possible solution. Here’s the problem with that: there is no solution.

With this debate, there are two extremes. One is to take away all guns and make people hand them over to the government. The other is to leave everything as it is in the Constitution. With the public having access to guns. Just the way it is now.

However, after the Sandy Hook tragedy and even going back to Columbine, America has come to the point where it doesn’t have the capacity to take any more hurt. People have suffered enough because of the lack of gun control. When talking about the solution to this terrible problem, one needs to factor in many different elements.

A gun doesn’t fire itself. It takes a person to pull the trigger. As cliché as that may sound, the truth to the saying still holds. Guns are not the root of all evil; it’s the people that hold them that are corrupt.

But even though there are terrible acts that can be committed when you hand someone a gun, Americans should be able to have guns. And by guns, I mean, a single-shot handgun or some form of shotgun that isn’t semi-automatic or automatic.

A single-shot is one that you would have to reload with every shot, while a semi-automatic reloads for you with each pull of the trigger until you are done with the magazine of bullets loaded in the gun, that can hold 10 rounds, at least in California. And even more alarming are automatic guns that load and fire until you take your finger off of the trigger. Luckily, automatic firearms aren’t legal, in some states.

However, semi-automatics are legal while they shouldn’t be. If there were a tighter restriction on the type of gun a citizen could own, there might be less violence.

President Obama has been working on moving toward a plan with 23 executive orders that will be rooted in solving violence affiliated with guns. One of his orders is to have mandatory background checks for anyone who is going to purchase a gun. Currently, those who want to buy a gun can do one of two things: purchase from a gun shop and undergo a background check to wait on their order to be valid or buy a gun from a vender at a gun show and leave with it the same day. With no background check. It’s just hand over your money and walk out with a firearm that is ready to be a part of a mass shooting that will leave the country distraught.

We need to make like we’re friends and find some common ground. I believe that citizens should keep the right to carry guns. But I also believe that pro-gun activists and anti-gun activists need to work together to find a compromise for the good of the rest of the country. What people need to realize is that this road isn’t going to be easy. And whatever path the government decides to take, we need to be ready to work with them.