I wish I could be as optimistic as you. It is true that all parties were against the gun ban by EU, but: 1) it was just a gesture that didn’t cost them anything and 2) it was just an ad hoc stance that is not backed by any ideology they would believe in (like Republicans in the US for example) that would force them to keep the same opinion in the future. I must remind you that the very same parties that now demonstratively oppose the EU gun ban passed not so long ago a law which allows the police to raid any gun owner’s home and confiscate his gun WITHOUT court order just based on allegation (read:rumor) about his bad mental health. That is something no principal pro-gun politician would ever support, yet it passed incredibely easily. This just shows that once there is even a little pressure, they will not hestitate to further restrict gun rights. And EU can put A LOT of pressure especially because not implementing EU directives can be punished by total stop of EU subsidies.
Concerning the new proposal of the constitutional amendment, I’m glad to hear that and I really hope it will pass. However, it doesn’t mean much considering how vague and general it is. It will hardly stop banning of certain kinds of guns or magazines, it will hardy stop the craziness of EU directives which lays in details.
You are also quite overestimating the public support for gun rights. Yes it is a lot higher than in the rest of the EU, but nowhere near to the US. Most people simply don’t give a shit, and they won’t mind either way. Gun rights is not something that could influence elections in any way.
Yes, we also contacted him, and he contacted us too. He even wanted to be a voice actor and I wanted him to be a voice actor in our game too, but somebody said no ( I have no idea who made this decision ).
I actually really like it. MP is unplayable atm, and performance is quite shit unless you dick with it in task manager but everything else i love. The Campaign i think is quite interesting so far (I’m on chapter four).
Over all i think it nailed the atmosphere, the graphics and most of the sounds are great (some of the gun sound a little wimpy like the storm bolter). The difficulty I’m on (Lions sword, 2nd hardest) can be quite challenging. The AI teamates seem pretty competent as well.
They really need to patch MP and improve performance though, those really don’t seem that significantly improved since Beta.
He cracks a few jokes, but he is not a troll channel, end off. He presents himself as a historical channel, and often puts him self up there with other similar channels like Skallagrim, and Scholigladoria.
You just can’t accept the fact that he actually believes the crap he peddles about British equipment being the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I bet his lines in the game would have been something along the lines of. " Had the cumans been using the English longbow, instead of their lowly composite bows, they would have been victorious."
To tell the truth, I didnt really like SP.
your AI teammates seem cumbersome to me, they just follow you and shoot only at enemies that are reeeeeaaalllly close.
I much more enjoyed the MP (with @Wenceslaus actually). It was full of bugs and one mission we failed because of a bug, but otherwise I had a great time.
What I think is important for the game is cooperation with your teammates. Otherwise its just a Duck Hunt
But the graphics are awesome.
I am still struggling with controls, though.
I tuned down mouse sensitivity to 0%, but I would still like it bit slower.
Your abilities dont interrupt your shooting. So, as apothecary you cannot heal yourself while you are being overrun by enemies.
I understand your reluctance and I won’t deny that I hope for the best (and prepare for the worst), yet I don’t agree with what you wrote.
In Parliament, it was. In the EU Council, not so much. Czech Republic and Poland were the only two countries that voted against the general approach. You would be hard pressed to find any vote in Council which was not unanimous, yet one where only two countries oppose. Apart from Migrant quotas (Slovakia, Hungary) and EU Gun Ban basically all decisions are pre-agreed or not put to a vote if a significant dissent exists. The French, British and Belgian (& Council) arm twisting was extreme in this case, yet the Czech government held the line.
Between 20-25% Czech MPs have concealed carry license. I have not seen any US statistics but I would be very surprised if the number there was higher.
There has not been any “ideology” on the issue simply because it was never politicized here like it is in the US - there has been a consensus that our laws are A-OK and no real push for gun control for anyone to oppose.
For the 20-25% it is a personal issue, moreover one where they can feel they can only earn political support by opposing gun control. Nobody can lobby their parties and other MP party members as well as the gun owners in the parliament themselves.
This is a huge problem and I hope that the Constitutional Court will strike it down sooner rather than later (the same like the “clean chimney” house inspection law).
At the same time you have to realize that this law was vocally supported by LEX (Czech NRA) - and that is the principal reason why I am not a member (I also had heated exchange on the topic with LEX leadership). Chovanec proposed the amendment only after gaining LEX approval because he didn’t want to risk the same backlash that he did after Uherský Brod shooting when he first (and last) flirted with gun control.
I agree, this is the main issue. That is why I sent emails to all senate candidates in my circuit this year asking them if they would vote against EU Gun Ban implementation even if it meant possible sanctions, and voted accordingly (my candidate failed).
Well I find it quite well written given how the Constitutional Court treats the rest of the constitution.
The wording will lead to three main outcomes (if accepted):
preserving status quo on access to firearms
huge difference in treating self-defense cases by courts (where the legitimacy is currently in question)
making may issue firearms (full auto) damn-near shall issue
Let me break it down for you:
3.75% of adult population are legal gun owners
2.75% of population have concealed carry license (US had less until 2010; this year the number significantly grew but we don’t have any statistic yet)
While in most of Europe, gun ownership may be understood with individual bounds - as sporting/hunting tools, here vast majority of gun owners own their firearms for self defense. I.e. they are understood as a family tool of safety (i.e. often a single family member has the license, but everyone has access to it within the household).
Also given that they are safety tools rather than hobby tools, the attitude to their possible ban is very different. The Dutch pretty fucked up with their proposal that would lead to ban of all semi-autos, so not only those affected by actual new directive, but also most other gun owners got concerned.
I’ll go on a limb and say that only 50% of gun owners feel strongly to the extent it will be single issue election for them. Meanwhile I’d say the same about 90% of CC holders (1). So we arrive at some 3.2% of population. Each one of them will directly influence at least 3 other people in the election, and at least half of them will go berserk and ask every and anyone close to them to support gun right vote (if not particular party, then at least choose the most pro-gun from those acceptable).
That makes 10% of electorate. Typical elections have about 60% turnout, however this 10% will have much higher motivation. And thus I arrive at 15 - 25% of electorate choosing based on the gun ticket.
Meanwhile the migration crisis made headlines like the one about the Dutch girl who got prosecuted for pepper spraying a migrant that tried to rape her. Headlines like this made it the first time I had people coming to me and asking me about the extent of gun rights in different EU countries, and a lot of general population simply being dumbstruck by the fact that in most of EU people are by law barred from exercising effective self defense. There may be only 2.75% CC license holders, but relative to other EU countries there is huge rate of people who carry pepper sprays/zappers and/or knives for self defense, and only now they realized they can’t take it for granted. All these people can be played well during elections, and none of their votes can be won by gun control.
ČSSD has now realized that they can’t compete with ANO in general, they need to talk to concrete parts of society to win their vote. It is clear from recent statements that they chose the pensioners and unions and now - with the constitutional amendment - gun owners. There are only two ways for them to go forward - either play it all along and win their votes or lose them all.
(1) Now is the first time in about 16 months that you can buy vz.58 without having to sing up on a waiting list to get on a waiting list (I am not kidding, this is what several shops offered to me in April). AR-15 - PAR MK3 still has waiting times of several months as do VAR rifles (I am not sure about LUVO) and the only foreign semi-auto rifles in stock are above 45.000 CZK mark. Pistol and revolver sales were also through the roof. Normal gun sales are 15K per year, 2015 were 50K and I suppose that 2016 will top that. CC license application were so high that waiting times for exam got from two weeks to half a year (now they are back to a month but not due to low demand, but due to tripling of exam dates).
So, that all is why I feel optimistic despite the shitstorm that is coming from Brussels.
strange, I was disconnected only once, otherwise it worked. But we were joining the game via steam and not through the multiplayer interface of the game.
Aren’t you required to register your firearms though? In the U.S the official number of legal fire arms owners is 3%, but it most certainly much higher due to many factors. Registration/licensing, not be required is one of them.
I was doing just that before i posted. The issue is the government can really only guess who owns a gun in most cases. I know plenty of people who own fire arms due to parents or grand parents passing them down, which does not require registration, background checks, or licensing.
Then almost every single result that came up when i googled “what percentage of Americans own guns” is wrong, which doesn’t surprise me at all. Most of them said 3%.
I wasn’t talking about CC, i was just talking about legal gun ownership in general.
We will see, I hope you are right, but I don’t believe so. And I absolutely diasgree with your interpretation of the constitutional amendment. As I see it, the only things that it will cause are 1) constitutionaly guaranteed shall issue concealed cary of some guns (and which ones will be solely determined by law, i.e. as long as you are allowed to own CZ-75, any other gun ban will be still constitutional), 2) making the whole population de iure some sort of “militia”, which could be used for exploitation of exceptions in the EU directive. In no way it will change anything on self-defense case law.
And little fun fact at the end. Do you know why Poland voted against the EU directive? Make no mistake, it wasn’t because they had the same opinion like we and were pro-gun. It was because according to them, the EU directive was too weak, they wanted the gun ban to be stricter…
Well I’m going to see Rouge one. I’m willing to bet it will be shit, especially after the writer said it was supposed to represent oppressed minorities fighting against the evil white nazis with Trump as their leader.
Please understand that the ultimate guardian against fucktardy in the Czech Republic is the Constitutional Court. That is the place where an individual can be safe that his rights will be kept safe when all other safeguards and the whole judicial system has failed him.
The lack of direct constitutional guaranty as regards firearms has prevented this to be extended to gun owners directly. Indirectly, however they benefited from fair process guaranty (denial of shall issue license is subject to court review which lead to practical exams now being recorded on camera for purposes of possible judicial review of denial), equal rights (may issue license becomes in reality shall issue if you put the effort into fighting possible denial) and property rights (no need to elaborate I guess). This will be a whole new level.
Well I will disagree on that:
“have the right to acquire, possess and carry firearms
and ammunition for the purpose of protection of life, health and
property and thus participate in the provision of internal order and
security”
This will have huge impact on interpretation of what constitutes “manifestly disproportionate force”
Do some research. You are mixing Poland for Luxembourg which I omitted for that very reason.
Polish gun laws are moving under the current government from the most restrictive in the EU towards mix of Czech shall issue concealed carry and Finish militia. That is why they voted against.
