They have guns at their disposal, but they also have accountability. I don't think imposing a martial police state is quite as easy as the more febrile Alex Jones-types may make it seem.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'