9-year-old boy negligently shot by mother

CONYERS, Ga. --

"A 9-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the stomach by his mother while she was trying to load a gun.

Johnny Andrews was shot early Saturday while his mother's boyfriend was showing her how to use a .45-caliber handgun when two shots went off, one hitting the boy in the abdomen, the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office said.

It appears the woman Carey Fitts, 30, was pulling the slide back to load the weapon while her finger was on the trigger, Sheriff's Cpl. Tom Brewer said.

"The trigger pull on those guns is real dainty," Brewer said. "It doesn't take much to pull the trigger. It looks like she pulled the slide back, and we surmise she had her finger on trigger, and when she wrapped the round, it popped off. You can shoot a round really quick on those guns."

Brewer said two other children, ages 4 and 10 months, were in the apartment at the time.

The boy was brought to the hospital where he was listed in critical condition.

Fitts was named in a warrant charging her with reckless conduct, a misdemeanor, but had not turned herself in as of Monday afternoon, Sheriff Jeff Wigington said."

The trigger pull is... In all my years of being around firearms, I've never heard dainty. And someone 'splain to me "wrapping the round". Racked the round, maybe? Daintily, perhaps? Then, it popped off?

Who would you believe this guys' role model to be?

And isn't it strange that you can leave a baby in a car until it dies from the heat but negligently shoot your kid and get charged with reckless conduct? Not that she SHOULDN'T have been issued a summons, but the disparity is odd.