All interest groupings have an agenda, Jim. Today's Connecticut massacre will produce a bewildering range of outrage, becoming the yes-buts and no-buts of the unending debate of blame around gun ownership.
Your agenda is advertised on each message. As a libertarian, I have no problem with agendas. Nor do I categorize protagonists of causes around democratic principles as one side being superior to the other.
The US is a violent society. It's what Americans have chosen, consciously and deliberately, and voted for in their legislatures as the will of the people. As a liberal I voted and worked with citizens to rid us of the long-gun registry.
That was one of my agendas. Neither right or left, in my opinion. As many to the right joined the left because it was seen as wasteful and ascribing criminality to responsible Canadians. So my last word on agendas, promise.
The criminals seem to have excessive rights of privacy in the Great White north...so much so many don't even know things that happened in their own town because its illegal in most cases to even publicly report on crimes, rapes and murders that occur up your way, because the criminals right to privacy would be violated.
Most of the Canadian public is blissfully unaware of many crimes that are unreported do to gag orders by the courts.
I also know Canada is not NEARLY as crime free as they want people to think...and I know this from Canadians that told me.