© Reuters / Jim Urquhart
In response to last month's massacre in Newtown, a Michigan charter school hired a firearms instructor as a security guard - only to find that the armed guard forgot his gun in the school bathroom.
The school took the National Rifle Association's advice in hiring an armed guard, but the retired Lapeer County Sheriff's Dept. firearms instructor, Clark Arnold, endangered students less than a week after he was hired by forgetting his deadly weapon in the school bathroom.
The Chatfield School of Lapeer, Michigan, which has about 500 enrolled students, was fortunate that the security guard remembered to retrieve the missing gun before a student came across it. The school director reported the incident to local authorities, but the retired firearms instructor will face no criminal charges.
"If you left a gun unattended and a toddler finds it and shoots and hurts someone, it could be some kind of reckless use of a firearm," Lapeer County Prosecutor Byron Konschuh told the Flint Journal.
But because no students were injured at the charter school, "it's almost like no harm no foul," Konschuh added.