I'm not sure I agree. I'd probably phrase it as the US leftwing and rightwing have different importances placed on different kinds of libterties a person can h

I'm not sure I agree. I'd probably phrase it as the US leftwing and rightwing have different importances placed on different kinds of libterties a person can have and different notions of equality. Gun rights, for the left, are an issue of liberty; while abortion, for the right, is a matter of equality. Too often in American politics, we pretend that what are orthogonal axes are different choices in a dilemma. Here I think we have an instance of that: liberty and equality are related but mostly orthogonal groupings of several related concepts, the preference of which can lead to radically different notions of "equality" or "liberty". That's what makes politics hard: the other guy wants liberty too, but he understands that in a fundamentally different way than you.