Czech President Calls On Europe To Provide A ‘2nd Amendment’ To Protect Against Terrorists

Speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Czech President made a case for Europeans to have their own Second Amendment. Miloš Zeman said that Europeans ought to “have the courage to invest in [their] own guns.”

The specific new threat he blamed for the urgent need is the threat of international terrorism. Zeman was involved in the 1960s Prague Spring uprising that took down the old Communist regime in the country, then known as Czechoslovakia, and his comments were delivered to the group of politicians that predate the Europen Union.

When an Armenian politician asked a question, he said that the international crime he refers to is Islamic. “The level of international crime is growing because of Islamic terrorism… I do not use the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism’ lightly but in the overwhelming majority of cases, [terrorism[ has Islamic origin.”

To impress the point, he said that Islamic terrorism is also connected with the Armenian genocide, asking “what can we do against international criminality?” before giving his own answer:

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