Violent Felons and the Second Amendment

[UpaLoompa]

"the right of the people to keep and bear arms" is the right not the Militia, a peoples Militia (which was what was intended) would not be possible unless this right was protected.

That's a reasonable interpretation. Too often I've heard people point at that comma and state that the right to bear arms was the point. Your argument, that the militia is the point and the right is simply necessary to allow it, makes far more sense. The conventional interpretation makes little grammatical sense to me.