I wish that I believed that. I don't.
Let's look at the mask mandate. They really couldn't force anyone to wear a mask. It was going to be unenforceable at the citizen level with any level or quantity of law enforcement. So they didn't even try.
They enforced it on the businesses. They told the business - and they carried through on their threats - that the business was going to be punished if they didn't enforce the Covid rules. Some businesses tried to push back and some of them might even ultimately win in court. But at least for the moment, they put enough fear into most e business owners that they are doing the enforcement job. Now, it gets embellished by "Karens" who howl at the moon at the slightest hint of something but mask compliance. Don't mistake "Karen" as a gender specific term. I talked to a pet store owner today who had an elderly man go off on her over one of her 16 year old girl employees for not wearing a mask. He was angry to the point of near violence at her for not forcing the girl to wear a mask every minute of every day. I know quite a few people who have a visceral hatred of EBRs to start with and would take it upon themselves to become vigilantes, maybe even posses of vigilantes to hunt down anything that looked like a "contraband rifle." The enforcement will come at all levels - no credit card transactions, no gun sellers and no ammo.
I assure you that I just get out of bed this morning with my glass half empty.