Taken one step farther, your views do not support the interpretation of the 2nd amendment as a check against domestic tyranny.
Yes, they should have shot everyone. Especially the slaves who fought beside and in place of their owners. Men, women children, all of them. After all, they were criminals, right? Why, I'm sure you can point out numerous cases where these instigators were convicted of treason....
Surely you can. Can't you?
You mean the male slaves whom the South denied of their manhood for their entire lives. You mean the enslaved women whom the masters and their evil deputies whipped and abused and treated like animals. You mean the children of slaves whom you denied an education.
I suppose, being that you whipped them when they refused to work, that they were afraid that you would whip them when they failed to fight for your unconstitutional, unamerican, unpatriotic rebellion against all that makes this country a model to the world.