The Setting

            The following blog discusses the setting of the situation. In all honesty this issue affects people all over the United States, but there is one thing that they have in common, the Internet.

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            The internet is a powerful piece of technology and its capabilities are endless. It can be used for good but it can also be used for bad; either way everyone is going to have their own opinions if what you are doing is right or wrong. That's where this issue of buying, selling, and trading guns through Facebook comes into play. Sure, the physical aspect of handing over a gun, spinning the revolver, unloading the cartridge can't be felt through the internet, but the internet is where it all begins. When you enter the Facebook website you are prompted to log in, and then you are updated on today's birthdays and you catch up on what's new with your friends and family. Then you decide to check out the Cheap Guns Minnesota page consisting of 18,000 other members are you want to buy a gun. You know that you won't get a background check, you'll get the gun for cheap, and you think you'll never do anything wrong. that may be the case too, but there are literally thousands of people on the web lurking around, trying to stir up some trouble. So when one decides to sell or trade a firearm to random person they just met through Facebook, what are they to do when that person uses their new purchase for the wrong reason. The internet makes it so easy for this type of situation to happen and that is why Facebook decided to remove that aspect from their own setting. However, that led to the traders moving to a different portion of the internet to carry on with their illegal activities.