an icepick through the keyhole

Well, this is true. At the same time, chief executives are the ones who direct their chief enforcement officers on whom to go after and what to go after. This is why, for example, the IRS is much more likely to audit a poor person now than a rich person; or why certain Blue Laws still on the books aren't ever enforced anymore; or why back in the first half of the 20th Century it was very hard to convict somebody of being part of a lynching if you were in the South.

Besides, if Der Gropenfuhrer wants the laws changed so maybe he could run for President of the US - and let's face it, he's one a very tiny handful of foreigners who could possibly benefit from such a change - you have to wonder why he is against a peaceful attempt to change the laws of his state that would benefit easily half a million people if not more.