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I take it you never played Assassins with squirt guns or clothes pins in college?

It looks like an awesome game (though I'm a bit worried about the $0.05/bullet thing), but it's also weird enough that I wouldn't play it in Boston or anywhere else where the populace panics over anything the least bit strange.

I mean, I'd have thought that Lite Brites were innocuous (only 4 weeks until that anniversary), so I can only imagine what one of the terrified might think of a real life assassin game....

Would you run around a city centre in the US shooting at people with something that looked like a gun?

Would you do it if you looked like me? I'm of Indian origin, and there's no fucking way I'd do that, not in the US.

I don't think anybody should do that, irrespective of race, religion or location. It's dangerous, and could end up getting you killed by someone who's carrying a real weapon.

And this is precisely my point, especially in the US where so many people carry guns, presumably to be able to stop people who look like they might be a threat.

But to imply that it wouldn't be even worse for someone who looks like they might be Middle-Eastern would be pretty disingenuous. I hope that's not what you mean.

I think you underestimate the intelligence of the average person that concealed carries.

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