no.
long past the time for the pen.
despite the axiom coined by Bulwer-Lytton, the SWORD is the mightier implement.
"despite the axiom coined by Bulwer-Lytton, the SWORD is the mightier implement."
Which is mightier, the swords of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Minh, Pot and Castro--or the pen of Marx, which crystalized lies and selfish opportunity into a package usable by less-academic tyrants?
And what Book do they all fear and try to outlaw or burn because it exposes their lies?
And in what country or countries are comrades-at-heart of Marx using pens to make 'illegal' that Book and preaching from it--and using pens to require 'registering' and then 'licensing' and then 'confiscations' of modern swords?
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." -- C. S. Lewis
Truly the battle is for the mind; the body follows.
And I like the freedom to have BOTH Bibles and guns. We need one to protect the other, at time, it would seem.
"Lord, as in the days of Job and the days of Noah, please have mercy on America, there are still a few who seek to be righteous"