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Mike McDaniel

An Air Force veteran, Mike was also a civilian police officer for nearly two decades, serving as a patrol officer, juvenile detective, a detective, crime scene photographer, Sergeant/shift supervisor, division commander, field training officer, police trainer, and a SWAT officer. Currently a high school English teacher and professional, classically trained singer and guitarist/bassist, Mike is also a certified firearm instructor, and studies European and Japanese fencing. He is married--the smartest thing he ever did--and is also a bicyclist and woodworker.
Leave Guns To The Police: They’re Professionals!
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People don’t need guns! They’re more likely to shoot themselves or a member of their family. Leave it to the police, the professionals. They’re highly trained! This is a common claim, ... Read more

Fact vs. Narrative in the Trayvon Martin Case
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With the third anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin (2/26/12) coinciding with the exit from office of Attorney General Eric Holder, this is a good time to review the facts ... Read more

Crime Deterrence and Solutions: The Micro Stamping Lie
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In 2007, then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a microstamping law that would go into effect only when certain technologies that did not actually–you know–exist, came into being. In 2013, ... Read more

Real Power And Choice
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Recently, Dan asked an interesting and important question: Is self-defense a human invention or is it God-given? If there is no right to self-defense, there is surely no right to the ... Read more

More Guns, Less Crime…Because Racism!
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One of my all time favorite articles demonstrating the cluelessness of the mainstream media, and similarly intentioned enemies of individual liberty, was a brief article in–if memory serves–the Chicago Tribune. ... Read more

Who Is Coming To Save The Day?
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With the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish deli in Paris, the inheritors of the benefits of the enlightenment in one of the seats of western civilization have ... Read more

Gun Control By Any Means Necessary
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Despite seminal Supreme Court decisions such as Heller in 2008 and McDonald in 2010, gun banners never cease in their efforts to limit liberty. State law, federal law, nothing stops them. No ... Read more

It’s Happened Before, It Will Happen Again
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It has now been 15 months since the March 4, 2017 attack on Anytown Elementary School in Anytown, Anystate. As an anxious nation waits for the next attack, an attack the ... Read more

A Tale Of Two Children
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From the Washington Post. On January 2, 2015: “Larry Wilkins was watching television Friday evening when he heard a faint knock on his front door of his home in Lyon County, ... Read more