Are We Facing a 2nd Civil War? We Didn’t Have a First Civil War.

So, exactly 161 years and 4 months after the first cannon was shot at Fort Sumter, the second Civil War has begun. The first battle started last week when a group of patriots wielding their handguns and assault rifles showed up at the FBI office in Phoenix over the weekend to protest the Mar-a-Lago raid.

In addition to carrying their guns, the first group to initiate the Second Civil War also carried signs which said ‘Abolish the FBI’ and told reporters they were protesting the ‘illegal’ search of Trump’s home.

Of course, the FBI team which showed up at Mar-a-Lago had a properly executed search warrant. They also knocked on the front door and waited to be let in.

But so what? If the protestors want to believe that the FBI was behaving in an illegal fashion, they can believe whatever they want to believe.

And if they want to start a civil war, it won’t be the second civil war. It’ll be the first. Which is why we don’t need to indulge in such ‘second civil war’ nonsense at all.

A civil war means that there are two groups vying for control of a government and the contest ultimately involves lots of violence, as in a war.

But the contest which started on April 12, 1861, wasn’t a battle or a series of battles…