There were quite a few of us openly carrying (I'd say... 8 or so?).

Oh yeah, I certainly wasn't the only one speaking either. I'll post a link to the video in a few.

As for scaring public officials, as I was outside shooting the shit with some other guys (turns out that it was the ways and means meeting we actually crashed, the actual board meeting was right after, whoops), one of the democrat commissioners came outside to find me.