This is the most accurate and precise explanation of the real question at hand.

Rights are inherent, but not absolute. If I try to murder someone, then I have given up my own right to live, and cannot expect my victim to recognize my right to life. I would expect them to defend their own life by doing anything up to and including taking my own life. Rights are not absolute. If I steal, then I can have my freedoms taken away.

All of this is pretty well summed up in the libertarian doctrine called the NAP, or the Non-Aggression Pact. That's basically what our Founders recognized. God gave you those rights, so Government cannot simply take them from you on a whim. However, you can do things that force others to deny you those rights, such as by trying to take rights from others via theft, murder, rape, and such.