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Newspaper headline: NYPD accused of weaponizing your drunk Uncle Larry
From a logical perspective, it is not hard to see why the police department would want to weaponize your drunk Uncle Larry.
For example, a simple analysis of the consequences of deploying him in critical situations will demonstrate that he is, on balance, more likely to help in the situation than not. I would conjecture that most drunk uncles are not going to be shooting their guns randomly at people unless they're being provoked by other unarmed civilians.
By being deployed in situations where he is not provoked, the chance of him shooting his gun at a cop and hitting them would be greatly increased. This means that we can expect to see less cops getting shot by drunk uncles than if they were unarmed.
Maybe there are other situations in which a drunk uncle is useful, but it seems like most of the time he's either going to be useless or actively harmful.
P.S.: This is all assuming we can train him to only shoot at cops and not otherwise, which seems likely but still requires further speculation.
P.P.S.: I would also like to be a drunk uncle if that is an option.