Real Gun Safety Pays Off
A local security guard at a credit union has been fired for leaving his gun in the bathroom. The thing that leaps out at me is this:
While Daryl Thornton was in line at the TVA Employees Credit Union off Clinton Highway Wednesday afternoon, his son, Billy, went into the bathroom and says he found a Glock 40 sitting on the back of the toilet pointing at him.
“I was just shocked that it was just sitting there. When it’s not really, don’t come every day that a gun is sitting there towards you,” Billy says. He also says that he didn’t know what to think. “Umm, I didn’t know whose it was so I was just freaked out.”
The third grader at Carter Elementary had been taught in school never to touch a gun so he ran out and got his dad, Daryl Thornton. “It was loaded. It was laying there. Anything could happen,” Daryl says so he took it to the credit union’s manager.
Looks like the NRA’s gun safety program for children can pay off. Remember, kids, if you find a gun:
1 – Stop
2- Don’t touch
3 – Leave the area
4 – Tell an adult.
