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As anologies go that one is pretty thin. Fort Sumter was a federal facility built with U.S. taxpayer money in the harbor of a city in the United States. It was that way before South Carolina entered into rebellion and there was no reason why the troops there should have just walked away from it. The troops there had committed no hostile acts. They did not interfere in any way with the shipping traffic in or out of the harbor. They posed no threat to the people in Charleston. Yet the confederates felt compelled to initiate hostilities then and there.

There are a lot of versions of the Fort Sumpter story. I believe that The South decided it was too dangerous to have a foreign military facility drawing a bead on shipping lanes in one's own country.

You conveniently left out the fact that Lincoln was sending a fleet to reinforce Sumter in spite of what he had told the Confederate peace delagation that was in D.C. at the current time. You also left out the fact that Sumter was in the South, was a part of South Carolina, and the US government had turned over all of the garrisons within the South, except Pennsacola and Sumter, since they were part of the South. You also left out that the South had been feeding the men of Sumter since the North had not fed or sent food to the garrison for months. Lincoln mislead the South, lied to them, used Sumter as a reason for war and to invade the South. There is more than enough evidence and documented proof to confirm what I just wrote.