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[Theinsomniac]

So I was playing LCS and I got this idea that I should get some people with high music skills, equip them with guitars and go try and convert some conservatives, little did I know however that playing Rock music in public in the LCS universe is punished by immediate execution.
Any particular reason as to why it's impossible to use guitar music to convert people without summoning the presence of angry police officers who will try to execute you on the spot? And is there any way to play rock music without being killed.

Edit: I know that it's technically loitering, but is shooting someone in the head really the appropriate police response to loitering?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

They way the Conservatives see it, any Liberal with a guitar is on an acoustic rampage, engaged in a full-throated assault on innocent Conservative values. There's only one way to stop a person like that, and it's with a bullet to the head.

[tyrannus007]

Is playing a guitar at someone considered assault in this game?

[Liberal Elitist]

The Guitar is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, allowing you to turn Conservatives into Liberals. Conservatives in the game often say when they die "Better dead than Liberal..." Conservatives in this game would rather die than turn Liberal, and using a Guitar, which can turn them Liberal quite fast if you have high Music skill, puts them at risk of what they consider a fate worse than death, namely becoming a Liberal. So naturally, to avoid a fate worse than death, they are willing to use deadly force.

It's not as if the Liberals in the Liberal Crime Squad are any different though. If a Radio Personality, for instance, tries to convince them to become a Conservative, by reasoning with them using Good Old-Fashioned Conservative Wisdom, the unhinged Liberals in your Squad are liable to counterattack the entirely nonviolent Radio Personality using deadly force. In this game, anyone views a threat to their ideology as a threat to their life.

Playing a Guitar ISN'T a crime though. And Loitering is what you get charged with if you didn't commit any actual crimes, it's just there so that if you get arrested for no reason other than pissing off Conservative Police Officers, they'll have SOMETHING to put you on trial for. But the penalty for Loitering, even if you are convicted, is nothing... except maybe if the Death Penalty is C+, since I think when the Death Penalty goes to C+, EVERYTHING becomes punishable by death.

And playing a Guitar isn't considered assault, either. It DOES alarm Conservatives, though. But it doesn't alienate Moderates or fellow Liberals. Moderates and fellow Liberals see nothing wrong with playing a Guitar, only Conservatives take offense to it.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

The real reason guitars result in violence is that playing a guitar is a form of attack in the game, just like punching, shooting, or using other persuasion attacks like News Anchors flashing smiles or Judges debating the death penalty. In LCS, persuasion attacks are considered just as aggressive as physical assault, and any enemies will defend themselves accordingly, including running for their lives, calling the police, or unloading deadly weaponry in your general direction. Once the violence is over, it isn't actually a crime to rock out on a guitar in public, but you can tell that to the judge.

[Jboy2000000]

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
-Quote by Joseph Stallin.

I don't really know if it fits, but I think it does.