OK, so here's the news:
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/P...111814464.html

Now--you are walking on the college grounds and three guys come out of nowhere to approach you...turns out that for one reason or another you have allowed them to unfortunately get close enough to stop you and ask for a cigarette. Here's the quandary: once you have let them get this close, you can't hardly draw on them for no provocation--just for asking for a cigarette, no matter how suspicious you are. But from there to full assault may be only a partial second, maybe too late to draw--and if they find out you have a gun, it may turn deadly (for you) in a matter of seconds if they disarm you or your gun is knocked across the ground. The best solution is, of course, to simply not let anyone near you publicly, at night, in a strange place. But let's say that for one reason or another you failed at that mission. What do you do? Run, until you either get away or they run you down? What then? Where is the line of provocation in this kind of situation where you feel completely legal drawing, and, if necessary, using deadly force? How do you interpret the Colorado law here?