Sorry.
That should be “...when you gamble on an appeal to arms...”
To be clear, there’s a lot I don’t like about the 14th Amendment, and much more I don’t like about the abuse of the so-called incorporation clause, which was clearly not intended by the Amendment’s authors, but the 14th Amendment does exist, is valid, and does require the federal government to have a definition of personhood which would necessarily trump any attempts by the states to provide alternate definitions.