To pursue this out a little further, how would you (generically speaking "you") feel if you were in any given public environment and saw a perfectly law abiding citizen with open carry who did not look like the "normal" person from your perspective? Say you were in Carbondale or Rifle or Steamboat Springs and saw a Black man, long dreadlocks, dirty cloths, scruffy beard. Substitute with any appearance you want, just not "cop-looking" or middle-class "harmless" type.

I guess I would make a concerted effort to not get my adrenaline up, just to remain consistent with my philosophy, but I would also have to confess to a little subjective profiling going on in my mind. I'd keep an eye on him. Similar to "nervouse" Arabs on a plane, I guess. I don't know if that is fair, but I'd do it anyway. Would that hurt the effort, making us like the cops in the doctors office?

And then, if you didn't do anything, and the guy did go off, ala Virginia Tech, you'll be second-guessed forever, just like the cops would be if the guy in the doctors office went off.

If everyone would just carry, then after several years, I think things would settle out fine. But in the mean time, there would be some problems, for sure.