Assuming an averagely careless programmer, a language made out of shotguns will produce more errors than a language with the occasional presence of shotguns.

When simply trying to concatenate 2 strings can result in arbitrary code getting executed, memory leaks, actual data-loss or fatal program instability (or all of those), it's pretty obvious the C language itself is made out of shotguns.

Making simple things simple and safe will produce fewer errors and fewer security issues. I don't see how anyone can try to argue anything else.