as with baseball bats, screwdrivers, hammers, BMWs...they're all tools made for a purpose. It's the user that determines whether they are rightly or wrongly employed. But that would imply a level of personal responsibility.
Guns are as safe as they can be made. As with other inanimate objects, they do not rise up of their own volition and strike either out of instinct or with malice aforethought.