"chances are that if 700 passengers are flown annually, up to 10 of them might not survive the flight in the first years of the operations."
most remarkable also the question who is to blame if a dead and burned space tourist corps comes crashing down from the sky into your car.
Since a steak would not even be cooked by dropping it from very high altitudes (http://what-if.xkcd.com/28/) I would doubt that a space tourists body would desintegrate by atmospheric re-entry.
Sooner or later we'll have to infect other planets with our dumb selves - there is no way around that. Until then we have to delay the collapse by deploying local rules which emerge in a globally more responsible behavior of mankind.
By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.