This subject has been done to death in probably every pilot forum in the USA and everywhere else, and as far as I know nobody has demonstrated any statistical significance in this.
Cirrus have sold a lot of planes, and sold them very fast. They attract a lot of attention, for various reasons, some reasonable (the first company to break the Cessna/Piper mould; a nice looking well equipped and very capable plane) and others IMHO less reasonable (product bought by affluent young people which creates envy in the owner-pilot scene which tends to be dominated by rather older people; product advertised in mens' lifestyle mags i.e. to new pilots as a means of executive travel across the USA without spelling out that you need to be a very skilled IR pilot to use it in that way; BRS chute not liked by traditionalists who believe it offers a way out of poor planning and flying; etc). Anybody doubting the "less reasonable" reasons for getting attention needs to only read some of the trash written on the BRS chute... Why not just put a pneumatically operated 3ft spike in the instrument panel which impales the pilot if he makes a mistake? That would cut down the accidents very effectively.
It's probably true that since the plane is a) well equipped and b) has been bought by a lot of less experienced pilots, and c) a lot of them are limited to VFR (IMHO much more than would be the case with that level of mission capability in Europe, where they tend to be bought by IR pilots) the type of accident is different. The cockpit workload on autopilot should be much lower, so different mistakes will be made. Just as the mistakes made by airline pilots are different to those made by C152 pilots.
I think some of the mistakes reported were pretty stupid (like collecting a ton of ice, apparently doing nothing about it, and then pulling the chute when control is lost) and it is certainly true (with hindsight) that most if not all of the BRS activations were not necessary, but people do really stupid and easily avoidable things in ordinary spamcans all the time (like running out of fuel, getting lost, taking off massively overweight and going off the runway, busting controlled airspace etc etc etc) and it doesn't get any special press.
As I said, I have never seen data showing that the accident rate per mile, per hour, or whatever, is any worse than any other piston SE GA type.