>>149882597
This. The issue is less batman refusing to kill under any circumstances and more that the authors have aggressively competed to write several of his villains in such an absurdly edgy fashion that it makes batman look like a clown for worrying about becoming increasingly liberal with who he kills, and it begs the question why nobody else tries to kill his rogues. Most of them are relativelu normal humans, at least normal enough you can shoot them dead. People regularly kill murderers and pedophiles, sometimes in spectacular fashion in the court room. But batman authors would have you believe that the Joker can bust out of arkham for the 12 time that month to gas an elementary school or Professor Pyg can abduct 30 people an mutilate them, and there's never going to be a relative of a victim trying to rush the stand with a glock or something.