Unfortunately, that is not even close to reality. There is no way they could have envisioned where we are today. For example, Jules Verne, the first of the true Sci Fi writers that inaugurate the sort of futuristic thinking we find so common today, wrote his stories nearly 100 years after the Constitution was written and was a product of the Industrial revolution and a significantly quickening pace of invention and human technological advance. I would doubt very much they could have envisioned or even would have given much thought to the possibility of an almost recoil free rifle light enough to be shot reliably by a child and capable of firing 30 rounds in 20 or less seconds (and that only in semi-automatic mode!). Rounds accurate to hundreds of meters, smokeless with a carry of almost 3 miles and a potential lethal range of over 1000m (a .223 round still contains the energy of a standard 22 LR at 1500m)
Not in the fantastical mode you are claiming. Understanding technology will advance, and understanding what that might mean to an idea like the 2nd amendment are two completely different things. And there is irrefutable evidence to the contrary - that is, they understood very well that they could not imagine how society might advance or change. And that is why they gave us the capability of amending the constitution.
Jim
As I pointed out above, technology advances is something they understood too.
Jim
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