If Americans could agree on an answer to your questions, no forever debate. "People" is the catch: what did the Framers mean and in what context with Militia? It's now a constitutional debate, with citizens' fear or favour of appointments to the Court changing laws one way or the other.
Americans as others in democracies choose how they want to live. Canadians are different from Americans because our country developed differently. Americans who support the "originalist" position see my reminding of the constitution as undeniably a living document as an accursed thing.
It's history, and its mention doesn't makes any person anti-gun. That's as crazy as current tearing down of the great monuments of the Confederacy. My sentiment in this respect doesn't make me anti or pro civil rights and slavery. The civil war is history. What next, bulldozing historic sites and national parks?
