C++ has all the footguns of C, but add in tons of implicit function calls that creates bugs for half of the things you'd think they can be used for, and because you don't see that implicit code it is really hard to debug why an implicit call was made or not made when you thought it would or wouldn't.

So no, C isn't even close to the danger of C++, in C every copy, every destructor, every alloc, is explicitly declared everywhere. Explicit is much safer than implicit, unless the implicit behavior is rock solid like in garbage collected languages, or very strict languages like Rust.