Cubs’ first baseman Anthony Rizzo had some harsh words for anyone bullying student protesters following the shooting massacre at his former Florida high school – and this time, he got political.

Referencing the social media rumors being spread about students participating in rallies across the nation over the weekend, Rizzo called anyone who spread such content “losers.”

“You hear all these things and it’s like, ‘How could you even say this? Where’s your heart? Where’s your sense of sympathy?’” he said. “It’s as real as it gets. If you don’t think it’s real, go there. It’s crazy to hear that.’’

He went on to say that the battle on social media in wake of one of the worst school shootings in American history is sending the wrong message.

“You’ve got these extremists,’’ he said. “You’ve got the people who are going for all the gun laws and they’re going to the full extreme. Then you’ve got the other side that is defending them that is going full extreme that we’re taking away rights.

“I don’t think that’s the message. I think the message is somewhere in the middle that everyone can agree on. For them to get bullied on Twitter by some guy with strong fingers, I think it’s pretty funny. I know for a fact that they’re not going to let anything affect them and their mission because what they’re doing is bigger than themselves. It’s for a lot of people.’’

Rizzo, a 2007 graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Parkland, Florida school where 17 people were killed, had largely avoided a political stance following the shooting, simply saying “something has to change.”

But on Thursday, he made a more pointed argument.

“I play first base for the Cubs,” he said. “But in a perfect world, make it stricter. Make background checks a little harder to get these guns. I think it’s a little too easy to go in there and get a gun. I think pretty much the entire nation can agree on that. There are a number of other things. My biggest thing is that, if you can make it harder to get guns, hopefully it eliminates a little bit of the problems.’’

In the six weeks since the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the students have defended themselves against constant false claims, ridicule and conspiracy theories.

Seventeen-year-old David Hogg, who has become one of the most prominent voices in the student-led movement and has frequently drawn the ire of gun supporters, has been at the center of some of the most recent attacks.

Conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham mocked Hogg on Twitter Wednesday after he said in an interview that he had been rejected from four California universities. Ingraham wrote that Hogg “whines” about his rejection and linked to a story on conservative news site Daily Wire.

TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who interviewed Hogg about his application process, came to the student’s defense and tweeted that Hogg “was not whining” or “feeling sorry for himself in the slightest.”

Earlier, a doctored animation and photo appearing to show of one of the most prominent survivors of the shooting tearing up the Constitution was spread on social media. The image of Emma Gonzalez was doctored from "Teen Vogue" in which she ripped up a shooting range target.

On Sunday, Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes, who survived the terrorist attack during his band's concert at the Bataclan theater in Paris in 2015, took to Instagram to slam the survivors of the Parkland shooting as "vile abusers of the dead.”