By Gabriella Indart

This is it. For the third time only during his presidency, President Obama has decided to address the entire nation from the Oval Office – a space hailed as a place of business and emergency. After the San Bernardino shooting in California, President Obama was expected to focus on the ongoing terrorist investigation along with the issue of gun control that has plagued the nation for the past decade.

As Americans tuned in to this important Presidential address, eager to learn what the president will do to prevent ISIS from threatening their lifestyles and how guns will be further regulated, they were only met with sad disappointment.

During the short 14 minutes of his speech, a hollow exhausted shell is seen at the podium. Gray hairs permeate his hair, drooping bags sink deep into his face, and his “Good Evening” brings only a sigh.

“On Wednesday, 14 Americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays. They were taken from family and friends who loved them deeply. They were white and black; Latino and Asian; immigrants and American-born; moms and dads; daughters and sons. Each of them served their fellow citizens and all of them were part of our American family,” said President Obama.

Starting of by introducing a tragic moment on American soil, President Obama explains the ongoing FBI investigation into the attack on San Bernardino County’s Department of Health where Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik unleashed dozens of bullets onto their coworkers.

“So this was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. Our nation has been at war with terrorists since Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies have disrupted countless plots here and overseas and worked around the clock to keep us safe,” said President Obama.

From there on, President Obama vows to “destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us,” yet the head of the nation failed to provide any solutions besides continuing to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country and train Iraqi and Syrian forces to battle ISIS; a tried and inconclusive strategy.

President Obama then spoke on the issue of gun control in the United States, pointing out that Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list should be able to buy a gun and should make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons.

“I know there are some who reject any gun-safety measures, but the fact is that our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, no matter how effective they are, cannot identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual was motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology. What we can do, and must do, is make it harder for them to kill,” he says.

In a series of statements that summarize what President Obama has been fighting for relentlessly without any progress, he concludes on the fact that Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors. And in the 14 minute presidential address, nothing is concluded.

He finishes his important presidential address with, “Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America,” a statement that rings of the further unrest yet to come to the U.S.

Watch the President’s full address: