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Good to see that you missed the point entirely

I don't think the point you're making is the point you think you're making. When somebody is acting in a threatening manner and with disregard for lawful orders while armed with a gun, it isn't the time to de-escalate. Crazy people do crazy shit, and they do it quickly. It isn't like a movie where there's a writer who's meticulously putting the pieces into place so that the story works out well for everybody in the end--reality doesn't work that way.

In reality, a guy with a gun who makes threats sometimes just explodes at complete fucking random and starts carrying the threat out. Officers can be shot within one second of a subject drawing his gun. It is literally life or death every single second when an unruly suspect is armed with a weapon. In that context, any act of aggression warrants an immediate response.

Being drunk doesn't make somebody harmless. It removes their inhibitions. It often makes a person much more dangerous. Why should his state of intoxication have any bearing on whether or not the police take appropriate measures to detain and subdue him?

Something tells me you're approaching this from the position of an optimist who thinks that drunk people are just talking to talk and don't actually ever do anything dangerous. It would be nice if that were the case, but it isn't.

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