You seem to be genuinely ignorant in your failure to grasp the level of risk which many folks in Alaska face in their daily lives. I dare say it is probably higher in so many ways than
If I was a worried person, Alaska would hardly be a suitable place to live, especially not rural Alaska. That doesn't mean I become cavalier about potentially dangerous things over which I do have some control. In fact, it is precisely those things over which one has control which separates the fools from the rest.
It is not the ability to handle a firearm - or not- which is a concern; it is the fact that one simply has to accept the fact that things will happen which are beyond one's control which can compromise the safe handling of a weapon. And I'm sure Alaska does not have a singular lock on that problem.
One accepts risk with many things. That is never more true in the US than when living in Alaska. But accepting some risk and daring the odds are two different things entirely.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
