Notice that the text of the ratified version of the second amendment fits with my interpretation that the necessity of the militia was not intended to be imposed as a fact that is always true. It does that by omitting the first comma which is the only thing that indicates telling a fact (regardless of how was it intended to be taken).
Without that comma there doesn't seem to be any stating for the necessity of the militia as a fact .
Instead the operative clause is connected to the beginning clause similar to the connection in this statement:
A car being ready to move, the passengers must buckle their seat belts.
Even if that statement is understood when stated to indicate that there is a car being ready to move that understanding comes from taking into account why the speaker is saying that not because the statement itself states that fact.
Even if I am wrong in saying that there is no stating for the necessity of the militia as a fact there, there is still a big significance in not emphasizing that with the coma. Instead what we see is that the reasoning connection being more emphasized in the text of the ratified version in comparison with whether facts at that time satisfies that reasoning. That shows what was being understood as the main intention behind the amendment. It is not just like any interpretation that came from that period because that is an interpretation that was accepted in as much as it was expressed as stated in the text of the ratified version of the amendment.
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