"Disorderly Conduct" charge for OC

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I know this has been covered before, but I just wanted to review this again.

In this thread, and others I've seen here, a Disorderly Conduct charge (or threat thereof) seems to be the statute that is used the most often by police officers who are opposed to citizens who OC. I have several questions:

1. Is this applicable to the mere act of Open Carry, when there is no intent to cause a public inconvenience, annoyance, alarm, or wantonly creating a risk thereof?
2. I take it that Open Carry is a right guaranteed by the Kentucky Constitution, a legitimate act, and has a legitimate purpose (self protection). Is this true?
3. Does a protected right trump "wantonly creating a risk thereof" in the below language?
4. If someone else gets upset, and calls the police, how does this not warrant a DC charge?
5. This is a Kentucky Statute. Can local governments impose stricter DC standards?
6. What is the best way to handle such a charge, if it can be thrown out? I recall it can easily be dismissed without hiring a lawyer.

Supporting story from Wisconsin: http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090423/SHE06/904230421
http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/jeffwagner/43423467.html?blog=y

http://www.lrc.ky.gov/krs/525-00/060.PDF

525.060 Disorderly conduct in the second degree.
(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct in the second degree when in a public place
and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or wantonly
creating a risk thereof, he:
(a) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;
(b) Makes unreasonable noise;
(c) Refuses to obey an official order to disperse issued to maintain public safety
in dangerous proximity to a fire, hazard, or other emergency; or
(d) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves no
legitimate purpose.
(2) Disorderly conduct in the second degree is a Class B misdemeanor.
Effective: March 27, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 2, effective March 27, 2006; and ch. 51,
sec. 2, effective March 27, 2006. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 216,
effective January 1, 1975.
Legislative Research Commission Note (3/27/2006). This section was amended by 2006
Ky. Acts chs. 50 and 51, which are identical and have been codified together.

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This would be the (illegal) probable cause:

(d) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves no legitimate purpose.

I must assume that RTKBA in the opinion of some would describe that. Opinion does not trump a recognized pre-existing Right. Self defense is a legitimate purpose.

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If you get belligerent with someone while carrying openly, then I can see how it would be a disorderly. Then again, you don't have to be wearing one for that to happen.