Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒

retired USAF CMSgt/DoD firefighter. Conservative patriot. No DMs. DM = block No crypto/investing

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

"On second thought, I guess I do like to brag. 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

Happy Flag Day my fellow Americans 🇺🇸

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@infantrydort Not wearing a PT belt? How about getting written up for having a few rocks on the sidewalk in front of your quarters? Had that happen on an AF base right after the fighting stopped for gulf war II.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need you to picture something for me.

It is New Year's Eve. The year is 2011. Blanchard, Oklahoma.

There is an 18-year-old girl alone in a mobile home. Her husband — 40 years her senior, her best friend, her protector — died of lung cancer six days ago. On Christmas Day. She buried him, came home, and now it is New Year's Eve and she is holding a three-month-old baby boy.

Her name is Sarah McKinley.

She hears a knock at the door. She looks through the peephole. A man she does not know — a man named Justin Martin who had showed up at her husband's funeral under the pretense of offering condolences — is standing on her porch. He says he is a neighbor who needs help. Her gut says something else entirely. She tells him to leave.

He doesn't leave.

He goes to the back door and tries to force his way in. He is not alone. There are two of them. And through the door, he tells her: "Let me in or I'll kill you."

Think about that for one second. Her husband is six days in the ground. She has a baby in her arms. She is 18 years old. And a man is threatening to kill her while trying to break down her door.

What Sarah McKinley did next is the part the gun control crowd does not want to talk about.

She put the bottle in the baby's mouth. She grabbed her 12-gauge shotgun. She grabbed her pistol. She pushed a couch against one door, went to the bedroom, and called 911. She had two guns in her hands and an infant in her lap, and she stayed on the phone with dispatcher Diane Graham for 21 minutes while those men worked to get through her door.

At one point she asked the dispatcher a question that should be on the wall of every legislature in America: "I've got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?"

Dispatcher Diane Graham said: "I can't tell you that you can do that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your baby."

Twenty-one minutes. She held the line for twenty-one minutes.

When Justin Martin finally kicked through that door and came toward her with a 12-inch hunting knife, Sarah McKinley pulled the trigger.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His accomplice was charged with first-degree murder under Oklahoma law — which holds that when you commit a crime and a death results, you are responsible for that death. No charges were filed against Sarah. Oklahoma law was perfectly clear on why.

No charges. Because the law recognized something that the gun control lobby cannot bring itself to acknowledge: she had every right to be alive.

The media gave this story exactly the coverage you would expect for a story that destroys the narrative. A few days. Some local coverage. A brief appearance on a cable talk show. And then it disappeared. No Everytown fundraiser. No congressional testimony. No orange awareness ribbon for Sarah McKinley. Because she survived. And the gun control campaign has no use for survivors.

Now let me give you the data behind what you just read.

John Lott — University of Chicago economist, researcher of 13,312 statistically controlled regressions across every county in America — found that approximately 95 percent of the time a gun is used defensively, it is NEVER EVEN FIRED. A woman opens a curtain and points a gun at a man kicking down her door, and he runs — straight into a wall in one documented case — and no shot is ever fired. No dead body. No 911 call. No news story. And no awareness campaign.

Between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses occur in America every year, depending on which survey you use. The Department of Justice's own floor estimate is 65,000. A JAMA study from March 2025 put the number of DGUs where a firearm was actually discharged at 489,000 annually. That is almost HALF A MILLION times in a single year that a law-abiding person used a firearm to stop a crime being committed against them or someone they loved.

You do not hear about them because nobody died. And nobody died because the gun was there.

The Supreme Court has already settled the question of whether the government is required to protect you. DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 1989. Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 2005. The answer is no. No legal obligation. None. You are your own first responder. That is not a political argument. That is settled constitutional law from the highest court in the United States.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the political class trying to disarm the Sarah McKinleys of this country.

Think about what that actually means. An 18-year-old widow with a baby and a 12-gauge is the reason a three-month-old boy grew up with a mother. Take the gun out of that story and tell me how it ends differently.

I will wait.

Quinn's Law Number One. Liberalism produces the opposite of its stated intent. They say they want to protect women. They want to disarm the tool that kept one alive on New Year's Eve while she sat on a bedroom floor with a baby in her lap and a man threatening to kill her on the other side of the door.

I am DONE with the performance. I am done with the orange shirts and the awareness months that suppress the data that would actually SAVE the people they claim to be fighting for. The research is not ambiguous. The story is not ambiguous. The law is not ambiguous.

The gun does not make you violent. It makes you hard to kill. And for people who want to hurt you, that distinction is everything.

But what do I know — I am only a combat medic who has spent his entire adult life trying to keep people alive, a father of four daughters who sleep safely in their house, and a science teacher who believes the data matters more than the fundraising cycle.

IF you agree:
LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.
SHARE this — someone on your feed right now needs to hear Sarah McKinley's name.
COMMENT below. Did you know this story? Tell me.

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#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @GuntherEagleman

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

This may be one of the greatest X things I've ever witnessed. No joke.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Understand what these street shows are actually about. They have plenty of mosques to pray in. They are demonstrating their intention to infiltrate and take over our nation. They are so confident of our weakness, they rub our faces in it by doing this.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

The mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests!
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system!

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@BuzzPatterson Same with the un-repaired bullet holes in buildings on Hickam AFB from Pearl Harbor attack. Reminders help us never forget as well as keep history real.

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@Gosleepriya 76

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Time in Federal Government…

Alexander Hamilton: 5 years
George Washington: 8 years
Thomas Jefferson: 10 years
John Adams: 12 years

Bernie Sanders: 35 years
Nancy Pelosi: 39 years
Mitch McConnell: 41 years
Chuck Schumer: 45 years

It explains everything.

Founders vs Grifters

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I asked my elderly neighbor how he’d stayed married for 57 years. He pointed to an old Chevy in the garage and said, “I bought that car back in 1976. It needed everything but the engine. Now it runs like brand new.”

I laughed and said, “What’s that got to do with marriage?”

He looked at me and said, “You don’t walk away from something you’re building with. You fix it. You grow with it. You accept the flaws. That’s the difference. Too many people today give up when it gets tough.” 🙏🏻

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

You know who you are. On April 17, you saw me in my yard with my dog. You watched a freak mishap occur. You saw the collar slip over my dog's head. You saw me immediately react, bringing my dog under control as quickly as I could manage without her leaving my property. You heard me apologize and wish you an enjoyable rest of your walk and a great day. You saw me smile.

After seeing that, you did not choose to show me understanding. You called the police. Maybe you told one of your buddies, who called the police on your behalf. Either way, you chose litigiousness over grace. For an incident that left no victims.

The police took my family's dog for that. A dog we've had for ten years. A dog I bonded with in war. Now she's in a concrete cell and I face criminal charges over an incident that left no victims.

I've been angry at you. But I am no more. I choose forgiveness. Not for your sake, but for mine. You are free to hate me if you want, but I will not hate you in return. I do not want to carry that weight.

I'm sure that you have managed to convince yourself that you were in the right. That you were perfectly justified in calling the police on me over the freak collar mishap. That taking away a family's dog and putting a law-abiding citizen who has never wanted to be anything but a good neighbor to you through a living hell was the right thing to do. These words of mine are not going to convince you otherwise, but time may.

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the hearts." I pray that the Lord will find me a humble servant, doing justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with Him when he weighs my heart. I am a work in progress, but I'm trying to let the Word be my guide and His will be my own.

When I say that I forgive you, I mean that sincerely. I hold you no ill will and I will not hold a grudge against you. Not for one day more.

I wish you nothing but the best. I hope that God blesses you and your family.

#SaveLucy

@LoneStarChica
@MoonAndBack69
@catturd2

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@Jennnyyyyyy 18.5 kg

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@ThrillaRilla369 45+

[Deportation is necessary @PammyzNone]

@PattyMurray @PattyMurray WE'RE STILL PAYING TAXES, PAY THE EMPLOYEES. STOP ✋️ ACTING LIKE THIS IS YOUR MONEY 💰. THAT'S OUR MONEY 💰. 80% OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WANT BORDER PATROL.
WE, THE PEOPLE, MUST CLOSE THIS DC NURSING HOME 🏡 VOTE 🗳 @PattyMurray OUT!

[🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 @KCPayTreeIt]

Yo @GOP,

You worthless fucks. We the people, handed you back the White House with President Trump, a Senate majority, a House majority, the popular vote, and all seven swing states in 2024. All you spineless, self-serving bastards had to do was have the guts to deliver.

Pass the SAVE America Act. Prosecute those responsible for an intentional invasion of the United States. Go after those involved in Epstein Island crimes, including trafficking and sexual abuse. Hold accountable those tied to Russia collusion. Charge and deport fraudulent foreign actors who have been robbing U.S. taxpayers.

Mass arrests, followed by bank accounts frozen for those involved in the DOGE fraud. Seize their personal property, and liquidate stocks to repay the American people they stole from. Take down demonic Fraudci, Gates, and other health officials for the crimes against humanity leading to killing and mangling of millions of Americans from CONVID and the clot shots. Arrest those who allowed fentanyl to pour through our borders, poisoning our youth and destroying our communities. Take down the people who committed treason when orchestrating the stolen election of 2020.

This should keep you busy until 2028. Now get to work and do the damn job you were elected to do and are paid by the American people to do.

We will primary every last one of you RINO swamp creatures.

Sincerely,
The Majority 🇺🇸

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@lady_valor_07 All 20 for me. Guess I'm not old, just ancient!🤣

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Somebody DM this to our “representatives.” They need a refresher.
https://t.co/jxVVvr9xH7

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@4thOfJuly365 Getting old. It was the 70s not the 80s.

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@4thOfJuly365 No issue. I remember the dining hall at Chanute AFB in the 80's serving steak and lobster at least once a week for lunch. Nobody complained back then.

[Daniel Dodson🇺🇲👨‍🚒🚒 @dand911]

@lippyent Old English 800