It really is weird. And if someone supported the change, why exactly stop there? We can make fonts have custom ligatures where the letters `gun` together could

It really is weird. And if someone supported the change, why exactly stop there? We can make fonts have custom ligatures where the letters `gun` together could have a completely different rendering, so we could replace it with a single glyph that looks like "water gun" -- I can't see how that's more absurd than censoring the gun. It's not as though it's more difficult to threaten violence with text than with an emoji.