Fighting with Flying Bullets

"It's hard to pick the best thing to happen in the war on terrorism, but this is certainly up there. ... It's a yellow-alert world out there, and we need yellow-alert weapons. ... Look at Iraq -- the population there all have assault weapons, and they've been successful in holding off a much larger occupying force. I think there's something we could all learn from this model!"

-- Stephen Colbert (quoted loosely -- it is TV, after all), explaining the benefits of the ban on assault weapons expiring, on "The Daily Show."