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Suuuuure. Whenever US "conservatives" talk about their rights being taken away, that is always what they mean.
LOL. I'm not even remotely a conservative. By every political measure, I'm a social libertarian, or an anarchist.
Taking rights away only benefits authoritarians. And there are a whooooooole lot of authoritarians in both major US parties.
Another one that people are talking about right now is reproductive rights; I think women should have them. Lots of old white dudes around me (and, TBH, a lot of the women too, because they drink the Flavor-Aid) think women should not have that right.
If you went back 50 or 60 years, you'd be looking at rights to protest (which are on the chopping block now, too), and rights to freedom from religious tyranny (which, again, is also a problem now, albeit mostly in flyover states).
Rights are never very popular when they're being exercised by minority groups.
If we're going to accept the concept of rights in the first place, then we also have to say that the majority can't take those rights away from the minority when a particular right isn't popular anymore.
That and their right to force us all into following the rules of their religion.