The Second Amendment Is the Nuclear Option

By Skip Coryell / 10 January 2013 / 39 comments

The year was nineteen-sixty-two. The President was John F. Kennedy. The Cuban missile crisis began on 15 October and continued on for thirteen days after an American U2 aircraft took photographs of missile sites under construction on the communist island of Cuba. The Soviet Union was about to place medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles just ninety-four miles off the Florida Keys. It is generally regarded as the closest the world has ever come to total annihilation.

For thirteen tense days the world balanced on the apex of the knife. Fall to the left – we die. Fall to the right – we’re enslaved. President Kennedy didn’t flinch. Premier Khrushchev backed down and nuclear war was averted. But the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was born.

Fast forward to January 9, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden bangs his shoe on the table and says: “The president is going to act … There are executive orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”

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Skip Coryell lives with his wife and children in Michigan. Skip Coryell is the author of eight books including Blood in the Streets: Concealed Carry and the OK Corral, RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, The God Virus, and We Hold These Truths. He is the founder of The Second Amendment March, a Marine Corps veteran, and the President of White Feather Press. He is an avid hunter and sportsman, a Marine Corps veteran, and a graduate of Cornerstone University. For more details on Skip Coryell, or to contact him personally, go to his website at skipcoryell.com

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Benjamin

Amen, Skip. This is the showdown.
http://www.cameronreddy.com/ Cameron Reddy

Well done, Skip. Hard to believe that my novel is THIS close to reality…
- Skip Coryell
  
  The book in question is here: http://www.amazon.com/By-Force-of-Patriots-ebook/dp/B008B863RM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1357843031&sr=1-1&keywords=by+force+of+patriots
Apocalypto

Hear Hear!
jeepdude911

I never thought about it in quite this context, but that is true. We need to show what we’re made of.
Amishron

The only place anyone that supports gun control should be at is at the end of a gun barrel.
- WASP
  
  Or in a funeral parlor, as the guest of honor.
David Msg ret

What the hell do you expect from a government that spends too much, disregards the law if the land on a whim. Allows all manner of deviant minorities to drive the discussion… there’s no hope
GDC

When the Government takes away your Right to Self-Defense they take away your Right to LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUIT of HAPPINESS. -Gary Calhoun
- rivahmitch
  
  Semper Fi!
denru

The question is now: How many, that are able, will get up off their butts and DO something besides sabre rattling?
Indiana_James

The war is imminent. I for one will FIGHT! I only have ONE gun but it’s ‘Cocked & Locked’ and ready to Rock 24/7. NEVER more than an arms reach away. Where is YOURS?
- http://www.facebook.com/hal.smathers Hal Smathers
  
  Mine is on my hip 24/7.
- http://twitter.com/bringsdogtowork Jan
  
  Beware the man with only one gun. He probably knows how to use it.
polmutant

so stop paying any tax, quit working, let the government fold. but what do i hear??? I am a man a proud American man! i say i am a man, proud American man! can someone give me a food stamp so i can feed myself?? I am a proud American man! please hold my hand protect me shelter me hold my hand and feed me! I am a proud American!
danclamage

Hopefully you’re just overreacting. We have no idea what executive action Biden is talking about. If it’s making an existing FBI database of felons available to local law enforcement, or vice versa, I see no issue with that.
- MyronJPoltroonian
  
  Um, ever heard of “NICS”? That’s the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that is accessed when you dutifully fill out federal form 4473. If you clear that then your local, county and/or state governing body knows you’re not prohibited from firearms ownership by the FBI.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/5P73LT3ABJXXILIHMH6SK6B7OM Wild Thing
    
    According to Feinstein, and her bill even if you pass her background check, you will still be required to pay a two hundred dollar fee for each gun you own, and an additional $200 dollar fee for each magazine with a capacity of ten rounds or more. In other words your magazines will now be registered. Also they are talking about putting a high enough tax on bullets that you will no longer be able to afford going to the shooting range and expending 300-400 bullets, because the majority of people will not be able to afford the bullets. They are coming at us from all directions. Also the Feinstein bill will require another background check in addition to any NICS, or even the background check you went through to obtain your CCW.
- Tom T
  
  What they want is a national database of gun owners, which is what Nazi Germany did prior to confiscation. It makes it much easier to do that when you have a list of the people you need to take them away from. The 2nd Amendment is about protecting yourself from the government it’s not about hunting (back then if you didn’t hunt you didn’t eat) it was about making sure the population was as well armed as a standing army. The musket was the AR or AK of its day.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/5P73LT3ABJXXILIHMH6SK6B7OM Wild Thing
    
    In the original “Red Dawn” movies, the Communist/Cuban soldiers knew whose homes to go to to confiscate guns, because all guns had been registered in a database. This is what the left is looking at doing.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/5P73LT3ABJXXILIHMH6SK6B7OM Wild Thing
  
  Dan, it is going to be much more than that. The left sees this as a good time to grab guns and and they are going after them with gusto. Don’t be deceived. into thinking they are only going to share a database. They want the guns gone………..
- Lee Baldwin
  
  Biden nevers knows what HE is talking about either! with him it is a idiotic surprize a second.
- advforops
  
  Dreamer, please wake up. This is the push against your freedom without number two they all fall, that is why it was put there in the first place. Stand or bow your choice. advforops
- WASP
  
  Damm, are you a dreamer!
Juan Motie

“If your actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking.” This from joe “bite me” biden, the same biden that has never met an abortion he didn’t like.
KJQ

Fight now with words, or you’ll soon be fighting with guns.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7JJCQ6HFMLEJ4UVJNCERSDH36Q Bernardo

We’ve a massive fiscal crisis in this country thanks to an inept fraud for a POTUS and so what do the people do? Vote the stupid S.O.B. back in expecting different results. The results are different alright, instead of solving the fiscal crisis,the milquetoast congress is falling in lockstep with His Majesty Obama chasing guns. Phooey on the national debt,unemployment,etc. We can put bandaids on that and kick the can down the road but right now we have a gun crisis which is far more important. Never mind that these crackpot shooters have equipment that cost a bundle and where’d they get the money? Going after law abiding peaceful citizens who own guns galore,need their proverbial butts kicked for their loyalty to the Constitution and desire to protect home and hearth. There’s police to do that for them. Of course when seconds count the police are still minutes away but it matters not. You should not try to defend yourself against a perp,he has rights. Shame on you Mr Armed Citizen for snuffing the scum before police arrived.
The Constitution gives the people the right and duty to take over government when it subverts their constitional rights. Time we did and first order is get rid of Obama then the anti constitutionalists currently in office,throw ‘em out. Revamp the whole robber baron mess and junk a lot of agencies,restore the gold standard,junk the fed, enact the Fair Tax,junk the IRS, then drill baby drill. The resulting economic boom will put the USA back on track with nothing to apologize for as the world’s superpower. If the flower children don’t like it, tough! They can go hug a tree because the rest of us are going to put America back to work again.
- Lee Baldwin
  
  here is a guy that will not be out there with, “We the People” when the time comes. he will be way in the rears making up some more musings about all that has already happened instead of lining his sights up on a commie. ~God Bless America!
- Daniel from TN
  
  That’s the 64 dollar question. Was obama actually reelected? Electronic voting machines can be hacked. This has been proven. In Florida there was a televised, government committee meeting interviewing a man who stated he was hired to hack the machines and rig elections. He testified as to how easy it was to program the winner of an election despite the actual vote count.
  There will be no honest election returns until we return to paper balloting for public elections.
KJQ

We actually came a lot closer to a nuclear war in 1983, in a “Fail Safe” real life scenario. You can read about the man who prevented it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
dave

Khrushchev said he would take over America without firing a shot. Here we are people. We have a commie muslim Prersident and socilalist Democrats. Wake up America.
Hoodoo H

EVEN THE SOVIETS WARN US NOT TO GET RID OF OUR WEAPONS… ANY OF THEM !!!
2War Abn Vet

I’m too old, too tired, and too disabled to take to the field. If the tyrants want to take my guns they’ll have to come to my home, and kill me or die in the attempt.
I swore to defend, and spent my working life in defense of, the Constitution. It will give me great pleasure to do it once again.
- WASP
  
  Never too old or disabled to pull a trigger. Others will help you get into position. With a good rifle and scope, your can take out a couple from so far away that the scum won’t hear the shot that kills them.
Tonto

If the rate that the American people are buying guns and ammo over the last 5 years is an indicator, the Obamanites are going to have a very hard time getting their little gun grab thing to fly without facing serious resistance. I’ve got a feeling that the ones they send to get the guns had better be the ones they don’t like because they ain’t going to be coming home.
advforops

No insult to you, but it is high time that the truth be said. Not to long ago we were at war for our very lives a small hand full of brave men where there for their minute of time all was on the line but one writer put it into words Thomas Pain. We need his likes now to put it into words for the men and women who are going to stand in this minute of time. advforops. For you folks that don’t understand the handle ( Advance Force Operations) a Marine term for special operations that take place before the main landing.
WASP

The rich powerful criminals of the NWO have ordered their lackey Obumbler and the DNC to make the final push for enforcing the UN Small Arms Treaty. and to confiscate all privately owned firearms. They can’t establish their One World Gummint and their global currency until WE are disarmed, so they won’t back down. What alternative does that leave us other than a shooting war?
lmd059

What do we really do to stop the Obama regime? I’ve written my congressmen/senators – complete waste of time in a blue state with the drones we have here….what now?
http://profile.yahoo.com/XAGBX37H3BVSXD3RSOACGFYJRI boyd

Mom and Dad taught us – don’t start fights. But if someone else starts it, finish it. Yo libjerks, all I want to do is be left alone. So it’s on you whether this fight starts. Then its on me to finish it. Are you sure you want to go there?

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