Spare me the smugness please.
If the South wasn’t forced into the Union at gunpoint, what was the purpose of shooting all those people (most non-slave owners) with guns?
You’ve created a fantasy to support an ideology.
I think the shooting at non-slave owners with guns had something to do with the fact that they had been conscripted, formed into units and committed as units of the insurrection. Certainly there where plenty of slave owners and non-slave owners in the northern states, that absent the insurrection, there would be no need to go hunting them. Ergo, it was the insurrection, and the war begun by the rebellion that was the cause of shooting.
After the slave power’s insurrection and war was over, the shooting stopped, providing evidence that it was the insurrection and war of the rebellion that was the cause.
Read up on Ft. Sumter before you accuse me of making stuff up.