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**__The "Speech Laws" in Korea__**

 * written by me**

Just like the First Amendment in America, South Korea also gives freedom of speech, press, petition, and assembly. All these apply to everything except if someone does these things in favor of North Korea or communism. Then they are punished by the National Security Act, which became very rare now. It also says that citizens can badmouth about the government, but they can't overthrow the government with organizations they make because of that. There is also a law that deals with the few months before election. No one can make a speech to support or criticize a candidate or a party. You can even be prosecuted for political parodies or wearing colors for a particular party.

**__Viewpoints in Gun Control__**

 * Oppose Gun Control**

For those who oppose gun control say that it limits the defense of the citizens. Since there were guns to start with in America, it would be hard to remove the guns from America and even if all the citizens has got their gun taken away there might be gangsters and smugglers that still use them. This is a different case than Korea because Korea had gun control to start with while America doesn't. People also argue that gun control won't help lower violent crimes because of there are other ways to murder than using a gun...it just is easier killing someone with a gun. So if the "bad guys" that aren't supposed to have guns can find a way to have a gun because even if you can't purchase a gun you can still have one or make one and go to murder your house which follow the rules and don't have a gun, it would be probable that you will have a more percentage of dying than with a gun to defend yourself. There are also lots of cases that people die without a gun so isn't it just safer to just have one?


 * Support Gun Control**

For those who support gun control say that gun control is constitutional. Even in the Second Amendment it states a "well-regulated militia" and doesn't state clearly that citizens were allowed to have guns. It is the Bill of Rights and they made the Bill of Rights so people can read and understand what freedom they have and not to have fancy wordings that people can't defy. It is obvious that the "well-regulated militia" have the guns in order to protect the people not people have their own guns. The opposing side argues that since criminals can still own guns and doesn't need to by guns in store but letting everyone have no guns and making it just illegal to carry around a gun or in your house means no one has to have a gun. More than 38,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 1991. And the number keeps on rising from there. Now that everyone wants to have a gun to protect themselves it has become more probable that everyone will use a gun than everyone without one. Less guns then less fights. Wouldn't it be a more safe and a happier life without them?


 * Declaration of Independence Worksheet**

A. Read the Declaration of Independence in it’s entirety.

B. Please look up and define the following words to increase your understanding of the Declaration of Independence.

Alienable- capable of being sold or transfered, colonists are being treated like toy

Inalienable- not transferable to another or capable of being repudiated, colonists can be treated like toys

Naturalization- to confine the right and privilege of a civilization to a foreigner, Britain should give colonists freedom

Jurisdiction- the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies, colonists should have the right to speak from Britain

Legislation- laws, considered collectively, colonists should make their own rules or the king to revise his own laws

Province- a principle rule divine to all countries (rules that they all have made), all country has their own principle to follow (the Americans)

Arbitrary- not based on law, criticizing Britain for not making a based on law rule.

C. Copy the reasons cited in the text of the Declaration of Independence that have been highlighted in red and give a/the specific example that this grievance is speaking to.

1. //He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.-// At the Intolerable Act, he had made the judges follow his own will and gave them pay while the colonists didn’t get enough fair amount. 2. //He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.-// He left us at peace before 1763 for some time until, the Quartering Act he made British soldiers go live into the colonists’ homes without pay. 3. //He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power -// The king made a British military there and he gave them power 4. //For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:// In the Intolerable Act the King made large troops of armed soldiers in Boston. 5. //For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:// They are talking about the Intolerable Act, when the soldiers can come and do whatever they wanted with the colonists but they get away with it because they get courted in Britain and not in the American Court. 6. //For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:// The Tea Act is what they are talking about when they couldn’t trade tea with foreign company and they only had the right to buy British tea. They are also talking about the Intolerable Act. 7. //For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:// They are talking about when Great Britain, Parliament, taxed the colonists even when they protested 8. //For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:// American citizens had to be called all the way to Britain to be tried. 9. //For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies -// Colonists made their own laws and lived their own ways just fine before 1763 10. //For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.-// To ignore the Declare of Rights from the First Continental Congress and just try to punish them by trying to take away colonists’ weapons and trying to take away colonists’ power of free men. Declaratory Act 11. //We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.-// The Americans asked Parliament and the king over and over again to treat them fairly.