We have to give Piers Morgan credit: he might recoil at the very mention of the word “gun,” but at least, like some journalists, he didn’t complain that the recoil bruised his tender shoulder when he test fired an AR-15 at a Texas gun range, years before every reporter in America decided to purchase one” as a stunt to show how easy it was for a person with no criminal record to buy a legally available firearm after a background check.

From his safe space in Great Britain, we assume, Morgan congratulated the United States on its first Olympic gold medal as only he could.

LEAST SURPRISING BREAKING NEWS EVER: America's 1st Olympic Gold Medal is for Shooting. #Thrasher — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan By a 19 year old that has more wisdom, talent, intellect and dignity than you will ever have. — Victory205 (@Victory205) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan And no one was hurt!!!! WOW! — Nicholas Iain Wilson (@NickIainWilson) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan yes with an AIR rifle, lmao, want to ban them too?????? TWAT!!! — Duane Johnson (@duanedaniel) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan Bit of a stretch here, mate. — Mathew Love (@mathewlove36) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan Do not make the athlete's ability and training in a sport that's been around forever about death. Don't diminish achievements. — Kathryn C. (@kathyintx) August 6, 2016

@piersmorgan Takes incredible skill, try what she does on that level. — Chas (@_arbitrageur_) August 6, 2016

Congratulations indeed to Ginny Thrasher, 19, who in her first Olympics pulled off an upset in the women’s 10-meter air rifle event Saturday morning.

Considering the New York Daily News writer who suffered “temporary PTSD” after firing an AR-15 at a gun range was soon schooled with a YouTube video of a 7-year-old girl managing the rifle with no problem, don’t these adult men ever get tired of the ridicule? At least Morgan didn’t have to hack Wil Wheaton’s phone in order to steal his witty observation.

America's first gold medal in the 2016 Olympics was won by a teenager for shooting. Because we now live inside @TheOnion. — Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 6, 2016

Reality: skilled teenage girl w/ an air rifle wins gold medal

How @wilw imagines it:@TheOnion pic.twitter.com/TskmnrXkW4 — ☩Lᴇ Cʀᴏɪsé Tᴜᴇᴍᴀᴜʀᴇs (@MrJohnQZombie) August 6, 2016

Bonus points for having the good taste to select a GIF of Adam Baldwin.

@wilw it was an air rifle. Don't try and make a political statement with it — Matthew Kitson (@mwk89) August 6, 2016

@wilw fantastic shooter and a fantastic sport — Amy (@omgjanne) August 6, 2016

No, he really isn’t.

Any comment on President Obama granting in a single day commutations to 56 convicts who were charged with some combination of stealing guns, altering their serial numbers, and using them in connection with drug trafficking? Or is the trolling reserved for teenage girls shooting an air rifle at a target for sport?

@wilw @datadivajf @TheOnion Learned hunting deer for food with her grandfather. Probably still does. No problem there. — Manya Zuba (@ManyaZuba) August 6, 2016

Will @POTUS allow the badass 19 yo markswoman to visit the whitehouse or are medals won with a gun scary? — Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 6, 2016

@redsteeze I hope Ginny Thrasher gets all her medals melted down and recast into a magnificent golden gun. — JPS (@JasonPStarling) August 6, 2016

And, of course, sincere congratulations to Virginia Thrasher, for winning her medal. — Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 6, 2016

Shut up, Wesley.

Update:

We would be remiss in our duty not to add Wheaton’s confirmation that his unfunny joke wasn’t very good, he felt compelled to tweet it anyway, and you’re stupid.