“I made a very solemn vow about firearms,” Bruce Wayne said in 2009, as he approached the evil god who would go on to kill him. That was the eighth-to-last sentence he ever spoke.When little Bruce was in an alley with his parents, a desperate man pulled a trigger twice and there was a pool of blood. The boy kneeled in that pool and dropped his hands near two corpses. Just as much as Little Bruce swore that day to make sure no one else had to kneel next to corpses, he swore to never touch the metal thing that made the pool of blood. It’s as simple as that, really.Flash-forward however many years in comic-book time, and Batman has lots of things you might call “guns.” But classically, they’re not firearms, per se. They’re grappling guns, sonic dischargers, tasers. Things that don’t have bullets. Things that will help more than they’ll harm. You might call it a difference without distinction, but I’d argue that you’re wrong.Read the rest over at Motherboard