How our government views the law abiding.

What does it say about the attitude of government officials towards government "of the people, by the people and for the people, " when they lobby and legislate as if the law abiding are their greatest threat?  They don't enforce laws on the books and then legislate so as to increase the burden on the law abiding and lower the bar of felony. This serves only to intimidate the law abiding into surrendering their rights.  The criminal will not be deterred by such means.  What our government cannot seem to comprehend is that the greatest deterrent to the law breaker is the law abiding.

Proverbs 28:4 - They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.