You can probably tell that I am approaching this from the pov of preferring individual freedom to Nanny Stateism.
I have knowingly taken risks in aeroplanes in the past, as some on here know, and am much happier to sit down and work out, with my wife, children and business partners what level of risk I am prepared to take rather than have the State tell me what risks I may or may not take.
What if (and it's only a what-if, I haven't done the sums), what if I could show mathematically that it is safer to fly though a live firing range than to cross the Channel in a single? Are we going to ban SEPs over water or do we permit flight through ranges? Or do we educate people to mitigate the risk?
On a similar note, my personal stuck record, from a mid-air pov, is that it is demonstrably safer to fly in cloud than VMC, but people allow their prejudices and voodoo to tell them otherwise.