This is something I thought about this morning. It goes for us here in the USA and probably all through the west if you think about the EU and even places like the Netherlands considering the farmer thing, but how perverted is it for your goverment to make laws, limits or restrictions that the people did not ask for much less are very much against.
I think if a people are in the position (in a free country) where you are negotiating with your own goverment or fighting them you are in a very poor position. The core issue is not that they are enforcing or injecting bad ideas, its that they are calling the shots and the people no longer are. If you are negotiating with the goverment (as a people) you have abdicated the fact that they have authority over you and can do as they please.
The job of goverment is not to serve itself, it is not to protect the people, it is simply to serve the people and put into action the will of the people.