(Breitbart) Czech president Miloš Zeman has said Europeans should "have the courage to invest in our own guns" in order to guard against international terrorism, like millions of U.S. citizens have.

The elder statesman — a veteran of the Prague Spring uprising against the old Communist regime as well as the Velvet Revolution which finally brought it down — made his comments in an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental forum which predates the quasi-federal European Union by several years.

"The level of international crime is growing because of Islamic terrorism," he said, in response to a question from an Armenian politician.

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