But somewhere on here I read that taking away our god-given rights was reason for overthrowing our government? Is this your perception?
It absolutely CAN be! And I get that directly from the declaration of independence:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies As you probably already know, the bill of rights doesn't list the rights the government gives us. It lists the God given rights the government shall not take away. In that sentence is the concept that obviously some God given rights will be taken away by the state, even in our country - The right to murder, for example - and rightly so. It is one of the main reasons government exists: Protect our borders from invasion; protect us from each other.