Your kidding right? Fans were throwing chairs for christssake. Half the people on this board with concealed carry permits might have drawn down on these so-called "fans" hurling bottles and chairs.
The Indiana roster was only 10-12 men vs about 20 thousand players and fans. I think they reasonably feared for their personal safety what with the bang up job security was doing.
You are going to draw a gun on someone who throws a diet coke and a couple peanuts at you? Ha--
They should have thought a little before they started going after the fans then, shouldn't they.
There was one chair thrown and no "bottles". And the chair was thrown after several fans were attacked. As for the pacers fearing for their safety, there was no problem untill they attacked a innocent person in the stands.
You cannot excuse their behaviour.