Since you were a rag-a-muffin little colony back then, the only way your secessionist leaders could raise an army was by calling on any man that owned a musket. Essentially, each state raised a militia, which then shot at us from behind trees instead of facing us and being slaughtered like real men.

Today, you shoot each other at convenience stores and in your homes because "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

It is obvious the fallacy of your thinking lies in believing your government will call on you to bring your weapons to defend the state, instead of using the professional army paid for by your taxes.