that s not that they were i hwh thinking about when they wrote it. you wrote, when this came to the floor of the house, on the floor of the house, the debate assumed the purpose of the right of keeping arms was to strepg th strengthen militia. i found that treatment of it fascinating. i remember a little bit of this from reading gun cases in law school. but there aren t a lot of early gun cases because this wasn t a controversy. tell us about the fact it wasn t a debate of yes or no, it was this is so obviously about militias, we didn t get into the other stuff. i think the framers were concerned about posititerity. james madison s original proposal for the second amendment, which was debated and marked up and edited in the congress had a conscientious objector clause saying if you