Our Dear Leader and his Lickspittles have repeatedly proven themselves resolutely deaf and blind to any but their own minority opinions over their years in power, there's absolutely no reason to imagine they'd behave any differently on this matter. This measure's utterly ineffectual as either prevention or response to home-grown terrorism, but it was never intended to be useful; it's just the latest example of pandering to the party's base while ignoring the nation as a whole.
When the blind government's leading its blind followers and expecting us to follow, it's obvious the intelligent thing to do is get them off the job. Only fools would fantasize about protesting crowds.