No, on the balance it is lawyers who protect companies from the people they harm and lawyers who constitute the government officials who perpetually exceed and expand their mandates.

Most of the senate are lawyers and it’s the most frequent occupation of a legislator.

You're letting "perfect" be the enemy of "good" here. If the alternative is China, where a mid-level bureaucrat can decide the public good outweighs your health, I'll take the lawyer-filled US.