The Tale of Two Second Amendments

[Trunk Monkey]

25. Just because the Confederate states failed in their attempt at Secession

in no way invalidates the principle of an armed citizenry as a defense against tyranny.

In fact (IMO) it bears the principle out.

The Civil war was (on the Confederate side) the wrong war at the wrong time for the wrong reasons and the South was doomed to failure from the beginning by the industrial might of the North.

That said you can not over look the fact that the South was able to carry the fight for four years and that a large number of the Southern command structure were US Army veterans of the Mexican American war.

Do you some how think that the United States Armed Forces of today wouldn't under go a similar split in time of a national crisis?

Do you think that in this age of instant communications and a shrinking world (meaning that our Army is much more closely bound to our communities) that the U.S. Army wouldn't have some serious moral difficulties firing on their fellow Americans ?