no, batman hates guns. if he started using guns it would be counter to like fifty years of his persona. i would think that betrays too many  of batman's principles.

It would be counterproductive in a major way. He would be going against his own principles and things he has sttod adamantly for for so long.

no guns would be  a set back is like he would not be the dark knight no more he is good as how he is plus he would look lame with a gun to me batman with a batarang looks we more cooler an darker than a gun with a gun everybody knows you just going to shoot you never know what  he is going to do with the batarang an what type he is going to use but this my opinion

I liked the way they have handled Batman using guns.  I would like to see them do it in the future but as a standard practice. Probably not. 

No, it's one of those things that make too  much sense, but won't happen in the long run. Just like killing the Joker would make sense, but would never take place. It's the weapon that took away his parents, and his childhood, and any chance for a normal life. Using the gun would be giving power to something that took evertyhing away from him as a child. He is reclaiming power over the gun by becoming a bat and fighting with his hands and gadgets while never killing. It's so deep.

No.

Tranquilizing guns or tasers or non lethal guns yeah but not bullet guns, I also want his to do justice as in killing those goddamn psychos he keeps locking up and then they get out and so on.

Eh, flamethrower vs vampire horde seems fair. Although, Bruce Wayne retires as Batman in Batman Beyond simply because of a situation that forces him to wield a gun. I think the use of guns would mean the end of the Batman ideology.

Can anyone explain him using guns in the new Batman Odyssey? I mean, I know it is set when Dick was Robin, but is that a new thing or was it always known?

" No he shouldn't... and people shouldn't use Caps Lock either. "

" no, batman hates guns. if he started using guns it would be counter to like fifty years of his persona. i would think that betrays too many  of batman's principles. "

" Can anyone explain him using guns in the new Batman Odyssey? I mean, I know it is set when Dick was Robin, but is that a new thing or was it always known? "

" @GreenLantern555 said:

" Can anyone explain him using guns in the new Batman Odyssey? I mean, I know it is set when Dick was Robin, but is that a new thing or was it always known? "

I figured that was an alternate reality or something. "

Hell nah

I dont   think  he shuld  use  guns   I   just  thought  it  would  just  be a good  and  was thanks  for comments 

No it would go against years and years of him saying otherwise and besides batman is a great marksman so he would most likely shoot his enemies from a distance and it would be boring.

I'd prefer he not, but there's a difference between using guns and killing people. If he's going to be a marksman and maim someone, I don't see how that's different from someone getting a batarang in the face. 

No!

No, he wouldn't be as cool with guns. I read this new one-shot comic with Doc Savage and Batman and it had Batman with two .45 pistols and it just wasn't right.

Only on himself.

there is a batman that uses guns............. he is called the punishier

NO.......-.-

He should use whatever tool is needed for the job at hand.  He's used guns MANY times over the years, so I don't know why people are acting like it's so preposterous.
 

it depends on which Batman and what the situation is.

He already broke his promise... Why not?

I'd like to see more experimenting with guns in standalone Batman books, but in continuity books like Batman and Robin and Detective Comics? No way.

No, of course not. -_-*

The few times he does use them are just as tools and not with intent to hurt. I'm okay with that but if it gained a spot on the batbelt, no.

Batman+Guns= Purgatory Punisher 
Then HELL NOOOO!!!!

Keep Batman away from guns. It would go against everything he believed in.

I can see Batman using non lethal firearms for crowd control or multiple opponents eg rubber bullets

no

  Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Depends on whether you believe Batman was justified in developing his Tower of Babel protocols or not. 

A policeman does not keep a gun at his side to kill people... he keeps it there because it is an effective means of stopping evil which may involve brandishing, wounding, and lawful killing.  By the same token, Batman did not develop protocols for the purpose of harming close allies... but as an effective means of stopping them in case of evil triggering their worst fears, maiming them, and putting them in jeopardy of losing their lives. 
 
If Batman is so idealistic as to believe he will never need a gun (but not condemn every cop on the street- or his dear friend Gordon- for having a sidearm) then why would he ever need protocols? 
 
I thought Final Crisis did a good job of getting Batman over his hoplophobia  when it mattered.  Although somewhat undermined by the futuristic space gun appearance which supports the concept that "realistic" looking guns are evil but things that function identically- or even more dangerously- aren't... an explosive thrown projectile is going to kill more reliably than most handguns in existence and Batman keeps them on his person regularly... in the animated series his grappling hook legally constitutes a gun (a device which ejects a projectile by a triggering mechanism and explosive propellant) and would certainly be lethal at short range (and he even uses it as a projectile weapon in the series a few times). 
 
That said, there is a certain theme and icon to Batman, but the writers should refine his reasoning for excluding the gun rather than basing it on neurosis or non-lethality neither of which are compelling or credible reasons (again, does not condemn Jim's sidearm nor does he stop carrying grenades and other high-yield dangerously lethal devices).