Dem Senate candidate who smugly touts gun safety trolled over sketchy backyard gun range where reporter was injured: You absolute idiots
A Missouri Democratic Senate candidate — and Marine vet — who often smugly touts his gun safety expertise online is being viciously mocked after a journalist was struck by a stray bullet fragment during a campaign event at his haphazard backyard shooting gallery.Photos from the ill-conceived gathering — which one observer likened to “A Where’s Waldo for ‘things that would get you perma-banned from any state-regulated gun range'” — show Senate hopeful Lucas Kunce firing a scoped AR-style rifle at what appear to be aluminum cans from about 25 feet away.The event was held at his home in Holt with supporter and former GOP Rep.Adam Kinzinger and local union members.As Kunce fired, KSHB 41 reporter Ryan Gamboa was struck in the arm, either by a bullet ricochet or another stray metal fragment.
His injuries were minor, and Kunce was among those who rendered first aid at the scene, but X users relentlessly trolled the Democrat’s pictures of the event, which they said show evidence of disregarding every gun safety best practice in the book.“Great day at the range today with my friend [Adam Kinzinger].We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom.
Always have your first aid kit handy.Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go,” Kunce wrote in an X post viewed more than 14 million times.“We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting,” added Kunce, who is hoping to unseat Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) next month.The negative responses came flooding in by the thousand, with many in disbelief about the lightheartedness with which Kunce shared the news and the accompanying pictures.“‘Great day at the range’? Bro, you literally shot someone,” one X user said mockingly in response.“Why are you using a scope when you are 10 feet away?” another wondered.“You absolute idiots.All of y...