[itzmygun]

To be fair, I’m doubtful the founding fathers necessarily envisioned silencers when they created the second amendment.

Do you think cars will be more advanced 100 years from now? Computers? Phones?

Things change, things evolve. New inventions will come. Every person who has ever lived understood that's the way things work in this world.

But somehow, these men, who were thinking years into the future, trying to set up a government that would last for centuries, thought the black powder musket was to be the pinnacle in weaponry forever.

Please be careful repeating leftist talking points because they are really, really stupid.

It's not about guns. It's about a safety net for the resistance of government tyranny. Having powerful weapons just happens to be the only way. The Founders wanted the citizens to be able to quickly form an army that could fight against a Federal force turned upon the people. That's the only thing they envisioned in drafting the 2nd Amendment.

[otness_e]

Oh, I fully agree with that, that weapons are the only surefire way for resistance of government tyranny. Unfortunately, the French Revolution ALSO showed instances where it doesn’t do any good against stopping actual bad people, and if anything makes things worse, like crowds laughing as a guy bled out to death from being shot by shotguns as recounted in Operation Parricide. And bear in mind, that was the progenitor of liberalism/leftism.