I think that you are buying into the hysteria. DJI, 3DR and others have sold more than a million drones of various models over the past few years and ONE gets away from the operator and lands on the White House lawn. This makes it a threat to national security, how?Unfortunately I think you and I can agree - that it's the idiots out there who are doing really dumb and reckless things that are bringing the negative press to our hobby. I wish there were a way to just hammer the idiots into non existence.... but alas, there are idiots everywhere....
So, there's been 764 sightings of drones by pilots of manned aircraft. Has anyone paid attention to the AMA analysis of those sightings? Only 3.5 percent had any notation of the manned aircraft needing to take evasive action. (To keep it in perspective, that's about 0.0026% of the estimated million drones sold over the past few years). Any contact or near contact would be a bad thing, but it is the overwhelming exception that the news media wants you to perceive that personal drones are an out of control threat to life.
Personal drones are just not the menace that the news and general public want them to be.