"The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample”- Mark Twain
Here are more samples so as not to "generalize" on a single sample. But I guess it is just a "generalization" that all of these folks lean left and that you can find a left leaning blowhard ranting about banning guns on nearly a daily basis.
"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."
--U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden Associated Press
"With a 10,000% tax we could tax them out of existence."
--U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Washington Post
"Our goal is to not allow anybody to buy a handgun. In the meantime, we think there ought to
be strict licensing and regulation. Ultimately, that may mean it would require court approval to
buy a handgun."
-- Michael K. Beard, President of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to re- institute the ban on the sale of assault weapons"
– Attorney General Eric Holder
"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
-- Bill Clinton
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
-- President Bill Clinton
"We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns."
-- Rahm Emmanuel
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them. "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
-- U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
"We must get rid of all the guns."
-- Sarah Brady
"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns."
-- Senator Howard Metzenbaum, 1994
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
-- U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"
-- U.S. Representative Charles Schumer
"If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns..." Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
"I dont believe that people should be able to own guns." Barack Obama
"I am consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry." Barack Obama "I would support banning the sale of ammunition for assault weapons and limiting the sale of ammunition for handguns." Barack Obama