Thanks for the background on your perspective. No one is pro-abortion. There a number of women on this board who have told me that they have had abortions. Abortion is legal and the law of the land, sadly. No one likes it, well maybe NARAL and NOW, but no one else.
No one is going to grab our guns. My personal opinion about gun ownership is that you should know how to use it and not just own it. I have a large cache of firearms, btw. There are too many Joe-Bob's in the land who have firearms that they neither know how to fire properly or maintain, my sainted mother included. She carries and has neither fired or cleaned her handgun in more than ten years.
When I say pro-abortion, I obviously meant "pro-the right to carry out an abortion if that's what the woman decides."
Regarding guns: all rights come with responsibilities. I also own a bunch, and my parents also own some without having cleaned or fired them for ages (which drives me NUTS).
As for banning them, maybe no Republican pols want to do that, but for sure the Schumers and Feinsteins on the other side of the aisle would do so in a heartbeat - if they could. Feinstein as much as said so in the early '90's on 60 Minutes. The way that most RKBA-sensitive gunowners view things, the other side only compromises when they clearly can't win (kind of like Kerry admitting defeat) - and therefore any compromise with them, no matter how "reasonable" it sounds, is a defeat for us and another step down the slippery slope. Remember, the Weimar Republic didn't ban guns, but lists resulting from the "reasonable" step of requiring registration of guns, ammo and gun owners were used by the rather less reasonable Nazis to seize the weapons of all potential opponents and jail them (and worse). THIS is why RKBA-sensitive gunowners won't tolerate an anti-gun Republican being nominated. This is why Republican gunowners deserted Bush's father in '92 ('89 import ban) and Dole in '96 (giving in on the AWB and the Brady Bill).