1. Ice could be sincerely trying to approach this in a similar way as he did the last gunslinger game because that worked out well for him and the town in the end. In that case, Ice would be innocent. The problem with this explanation, though, is this is a different game. Ice is not the gunslinger now.... so he should not be the one calling the shots (so to speak) or trying to sucker people in.
2. Ice and I tend to go round and round like this, just about every game we're both in. I often misread his seeming "scummy" posts and conclude he must therefore be evil. Too often, I've been wrong before when I'm too quick to decide about him one way or another and that ended up hurting the town in past games (when it turned out we were both innocent). Since I already recognize this as a drawback, I make it a point to be (at least try to be) extra objective and less apt to make a snap judgment about Ice until there's more time to observe his game.