It's fine that you are worried about high speed collisions. Bird strikes are a serious problem, especially for small craft, and there's no reason to allow the p

It's fine that you are worried about high speed collisions. Bird strikes are a serious problem, especially for small craft, and there's no reason to allow the public to increase the frequency of them. However, you compared them directly to guided, high explosive ordinance that are intentionally, reliably fatal for any sized aircraft. This is not a valid comparison, and is the core problem with the term "drone". I have had a few pounds of wood hit my windshield at high speed, and while it really scared me it had no long term impact on me or my car. I would not fair so well against a Hellfire missile. Edit: Impact of 2lb at 75mph ~= 1 Kj. Detonation of a Hellfire missile (9kg of TNT equiv) is 37.66 Mj. That's a four orders of magnitude difference, not taking into account the suitability for inflicting damage.