What Pope Benedict XVI said is that in certain circumstances, using a condom would be less bad than not using one.

The term "assault weapon" conjures up images of the weapons used by the military, but the weapons in the ban actually function the same as any semiautomatic hunting rifle.

Fueled by false images of machine guns and sniper rifles, the debate next year is likely to be very emotional.

Fueled by false images of machine guns and sniper rifles, the debate next year is likely to be very emotional. Let's hope that the politicians at least learn what guns are being banned.

When the federal assault-weapons ban expired last September, its fans claimed that gun crimeswould surge.Eight months later,the only casualty has been gun-controllers' credibility.

The assault weapons bans have been in effect for almost a decade, but there is still no evidence that they produced any benefits.

For the U.S. to prevail in this game of chicken, it will have to accept two basic premises that it has shied away from thus far. First, that the Pakistani army is an adversary, if not an enemy. Second, that the U.S. can only win if the generals at army headquarters in Rawalpindi cease to believe that America will always blink first.

With the federal assault weapons ban sunsetting on Monday at midnight, the gun-control movement has a lot to fear, but not what most people think.