First off let me say that this is obviously a touchy subject for some so I will try to be careful of my words.
Why did our legislators feel the need to put a must produce ID and carry permit when asked by LEO's provision in our SDA even without articulate suspicion of a crime? Exercising our rights is not a crime nor does it require justification (even a ruling of the supreme court, I cant say for sure which one).
Understandably driving a car is not a constitutional protected right but bearing arms is. I don't need a permission slip to practice my religion, or my speech, or my freedom of expression. Why then do or should we need a permission slip to practice our 2a right?
I can understand checking a DL of someone who is driving on a highway or had been or about to, in order to establish the legality compliance of said privilege not right. But I don't agree with the mentality of doing so to avoid "egg in your face" or flack from others as opposed to just doing so to be safe or to do the best job you can do in keeping the general public safe, but also respecting the civil rights of the people and not treating everyone as a criminal all while keeping your guard up to make it home safe at the end of the day.
As for the OP I agree with his dispute of notifying when it was only a welfare check and commend him for standing his ground on that. However I don't entirely agree with the putting his daughter in danger. I agree that if the officer in this case saw her handle the firearm mistakenly assumed she was going to use it to hurt him then shoot an innocent child, then she was in danger. But if the child was taught how to properly handle and be safe with a firearm (this should be taught at a young age, kids are smarter than most will give them credit for), then outside of the officer(s) seeing her handle the gun and react badly then a educated child was never in danger simply by being unsupervised in the presence of a firearm.
To many people this day in age don't know their rights or the law (something that should be taught in our schools)or have respect for others, but also to many LEO's don't know the law and don't have respect for others (as seen by abusing their authority and violating peoples civil liberties). However there are those that do (on both sides) but the bad actions of those that don't causes people to judge others based on those bad actions. Until everyone has respect for others even with their failures this will continue to show its ugly face.
We have come a long way to where we are today but we still have a long way to go. To all those who seek these goals, Thank you for your hard work and diligence. To the OP thank you for sharing your post with us and standing up for not only your rights but all of ours in the long run, God bless.