I always felt that our very own Travis McGee was being frighteningly prophetic when he wrote his series Enemies Foreign & Domestic and we should refer to the first book in that series that mentioned what happened to some of the politicians who voted or actively lobbied for those laws.
Normal law abiding Americans behave very differently when the government turns on them and begins to act in the manner of a tyrant. Yes, they first rely on the ballot box and hopefully the jury box but when all else fails there is still the cartridge box and for verification just read the personal letters of the Founding Fathers.