by DANIEL BARDSLEY
Pro-gun protest sticker
The banners of a group of protesters who gathered in Prague recently explained their complaints in a style that was nothing if not dramatic.
With large capital letters shouting NESAHEJ! – DON’T TOUCH! – placards depicted a sinister-looking hand covered in an EU flag moving in to take a Czech gun.
Other posters showed the back of a woman walking through an underpass and, in the foreground, a knife about to be used to attack her.
The Wenceslas Square demonstration, held where countless hundreds of other protests have taken place over the years, was the latest twist in a controversy over proposed European Union gun controls that has been rumbling since 2015.
Efforts by Brussels to clamp down on ownership across the 28-member bloc have been led by countries such as France and Luxembourg, which are keen to impose restrictions after multiple firearms-related terrorist incidents on the continent.
They have come up against hostility in the Czech Republic, a country long known for its relaxed gun laws and where campaigners say guns are needed for self-defense against, among others, terrorists.
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