The first comma was never to me but in support of my understanding of the purpose of the amendment let alone sufficient by itself to support a contrary view. But for those asking why the first comma, here is an amazingly simple and comprehensive answer others might already reached while I don't know how it escaped me until now.
Why the first comma, you ask?
The strongest answer to that is:
Because they wanted to talk about "A well- regulated militia" not about "A well- regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state".
This answer include the answer I previously gave and shown through this example:
If the head of a company tells the supervisors of its divisions:
Employees, being needed, they should be given salary raise.
it is certainly different from saying:
Employees being needed, they should be given salary raise.
The first statement is about employees in general while removing the first comma from the second made it carry the meaning of specifying only needed employees.
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