One may need not to miss focusing on how it is the whole "being necessary to the security of a free state" that connect to the operative part of the amendment. It is that status of being for the militia that connects directly to the operative part not the militia itself. For the later, even if we include an intention to merely teach a purpose, it could have sufficed to say:
For a well-regulated militia, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
One also could have included all the alleged teaching in the amendment in its current form and said:
Being necessary to the security of a free state, for a well-regulated militia, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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