Let’s take a look at the numbers. For every one gun in the US last year, there was 0.000033152 death (not counting suicides because trying to regulate methods of suicide is a fool’s game).
Comparatively, for every one car in the US last year, there was 0.000131589 death.
So, as a “thing”, a car is far more likely to be involved in a death than a gun.
If it’s just total numbers of deaths we are worried about, alcohol blows the pack away at 178,000 deaths last year.
I’ll let y’all make your own conclusions about utility versus risk. Bottom line, there has always been crazy, there will always be crazy, and crazy unfortunately always finds a way.