Open carry is legal here in Colorado, everywhere except Denver (where I live). I have open-carried a few times up in the mountains and in mountain towns, but not in the metro area -- largely because I wanted to avoid a situation like this. Now that I have my CCW, I carry almost everywhere. I don't carry at work because my office has a no-weapons policy and I would be fired if they ever found out, but I carry pretty much everywhere else.

The no-weapons policy annoys me, especially since last year 2 women were raped in the bathrooms on the first floor. Our security personnel -- who do a good job -- don't carry weapons, and there's no cops on the premises, so how does preventing their law-abiding employees from protecting themselves protect help our company?