Most polling in the race between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and his Democrat opponent, Lucas Kunce, has shown Hawley firmly in the lead. But a couple of them have put Kunce to within shouting distance of Hawley, so one would think with that in mind (and with two weeks to go) that he’d be a little smarter, wiser in his choice of campaign gatherings and who he has tagging along with him.
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Except that has not been the case, as evidenced by a shooting event Kunce hosted Tuesday featuring union members that went wildly off course fast – not just because he invited faux “Republican” NeverTrumper Adam Kinzinger to participate, but also because of what happened to a reporter while shooting was taking place.
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The man’s employer, KSHB 41 News, filed the following report:
HOLT, Mo. — A KSHB 41 News reporter was hit by a metal fragment Tuesday afternoon while covering a campaign event for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce.
Reporter Ryan Gamboa was covering the event at a private residence in Holt, Missouri — about 40 miles northeast of Kansas City — Tuesday afternoon when he was struck in the arm. It was unclear if he was struck by a bullet ricochet or another type of metal fragment.
Kunce was firing an AR-15-style weapon at the time that the reporter was struck.
For some, the incident brought to mind the infamous 2006 hunting accident involving then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who “accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.”
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Thankfully, Gamboa was okay after being treated and released from the hospital. Meanwhile, Kunce’s tweet about the incident, where he focused on how he tended to Gamboa’s wound, got some attention from Hawley and some of his senior Senate staffers:
Hawley himself was relentless:
Hawley’s colleague, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), even got in on the action:
I think there’s something to be said for the oft-repeated remark about how Democrats and guns simply don’t mix, and that clearly goes double when faux Republicans like Kinzinger are involved.
Relatedly, there is currently a discussion on the Twitter/X machine about how the photos Kunce shared demonstrate “what to never do” while at a shooting range:
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Agree or disagree? I report, readers decide.
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