Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) apparently finds shooting-related injuries funny.

One week after a St. Louis newspaper called him the worst sitting senator in America, Hawley mocked his Democratic general election opponent Lucas Kunce after a Kansas City TV reporter was injured by shrapnel at a local gun range in a campaign event mishap.

Their longstanding feud escalated Tuesday when KSHB reporter Ryan Gamboa was struck with a bullet fragment after Kunce fired a round at the shooting range. Hawley, a staunch gun rights advocate , used the incident as a political opportunity.

I condemn all acts of violence against reporters and call on Kunce never to shoot another one, Hawley wrote Tuesday on X , formerly Twitter, before doubling down in another post : I know the Kunce campaign needed a shot in the arm, but this is taking it a little far

Kunce held the campaign event with former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a noted Republican who has long distanced himself from the more radical factions of his party, and shared afterward that he used his training as a U.S. Marine veteran to treat Gamboa with a first-aid kit.

Hawley led the charge to deny the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump and recently tried to bait Kunce into a campaign-jeopardizing altercation at the Missouri State Fair .

In Hawleys initial social media post about the Kunce campaign shooting range incident, he included three crying-laughing emojis. He wrote in another post with a screenshot from an article about the moment that this is what happens When liberals play with guns.