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(Parkland school shooting was in 2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji#Controversy_and_glyph_changes
Google never should have changed from the blunderbuss, or the blob emojis for that matter.
Well, if there's one thing that's clear from all this, it's that Microsoft and Google at least used to have some style.
I had to look up what a blunderbuss was and just learned it was a real thing. I'd only ever seen them used in cartoons. It just looks cartoonish.
It looks like instead of BLAM, it goes honk.
It's got a built-in loudener.
That is FASCINATING. Thanks for finding that!
Kind of bummed at the lack of variety. :(
Apple and Xitter should keep what they currently have. Microsoft and Google should switch back to their 2013 versions because they were awesome. Facebook should also switch back to its 2013 emoji, but in that case because the revolver was the previously most common one and its the basic bitch of social media. Samsung should switch to an emoji of either that improvised gun the guy who shot Shinzo Abe used, or some ridiculous anime weapon.