The rallying cry for gun controllers these days is, "We need to pass 'commonsense gun safety laws,' like a universal background check."

This new universal catch phrase, approved by the left wing and their politicians who have lined up to say it without variation, don't understand the underlying problem.

So-called commonsense (now one word) "gun safety" (must squeeze in safety) laws are nothing of the sort. All five politicians at the first democratic presidential non-debate said this phrase. You will not hear the term "gun-control laws" from them any longer, unless they slip up. Everyone now understands that "gun control" means gun bans.

The left can't pass any "common-sense" gun-control laws because they aren't proposing any.