{"id":74777,"date":"2020-08-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74777"},"modified":"2020-08-06T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:53:33","slug":"experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74777","title":{"rendered":"Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Czech Republic is debating implementing a constitutional guarantee in line with our second amendment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago, the amendment passed through the lower house of the Czech parliament but was stopped in the upper house. The proposed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senat.cz\/xqw\/webdav\/pssenat\/original\/92773\/77778\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">language<\/a>&nbsp;read as so: \u201cThe right to defend one\u2019s own life or the life of another person with a weapon is guaranteed under the conditions laid down by law.\u201dnull<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, the center-right Civic Democratic Party has won a majority in the Czech Senate. And this week, the Czech government unexpectedly announced it would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/short_news\/prague-a-human-right-to-defend-oneself-with-firearms\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">endorse<\/a>&nbsp;the plan to add the language. The amendment now needs a 60 percent supermajority in both chambers to become \u2014 somewhat appropriately \u2014 only the second amendment to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former president of the Czech Police \u2014 and the most vocal champion of the bill \u2014 Martin \u010cerv\u00ed\u010dek, says that it\u2019s meant to counter the \u201cdisarmament tendencies\u201d of the European Union. Which sounds like a worthwhile cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic is debating implementing a constitutional guarantee in line with our second amendment: A few years ago, the amendment passed through the lower house of the Czech parliament but was stopped in the upper house. The proposed&nbsp;language&nbsp;read as so: \u201cThe right to defend one\u2019s own life or the life of another person with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74878,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74777\/revisions\/74878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}