I'm a Belligerent Drunk. Is It a Bad Idea?

"When alcohol is about, there's no thought process whatsoever. Just zero," he says. "I'm just going to do whatever pops into my head. That's alcohol." A friend of his was a belligerent drunk who started an argument with another man and got caught in the cross-fire. The two men were eventually separated by police but not before it became clear that both had been drinking heavily at the time.