In other words, it's trying to prepare defenders of liberty for the possibility that they may have to kill and be killed in a fight for freedom. It's a subject that does need to be broached, and I think fictionalized scenarios are a good way of doing it.
The heavy weight of that reality has definitely made itself obvious in the past several years, as we've come to see that a lot of things we might have suspected about the intentions of the Ruling Class are indeed true, and as the brazenness and speed with which they've pursued their agenda has been ratcheted up considerably.
I've considered the same basic premise of the book myself. Will people comply with such edicts under the "live to fight another day" reasoning, or just out of sheer self-preservation? I worry that a substantial number will, a majority most likely, and that doing so would be a grave mistake and they need to digest the implications of it right now while it's still in the realm of fiction. At that point there will be no "another day" because the existence that awaits you is one of pure serfdom and subjugation. Think Solzhenitsyn and the "how we burned in the camps later" quote.
