Three Alabama legislators gathered outside a Hueytown funeral home owned by the grandfather of one of the four victims of Saturday’s Dadeville shooting and issued a call for immediate action to curb gun violence.

State Sen. Merika Coleman said she organized the impromptu gathering in front of Integrity Funeral Home in Hueytown because the owner, Clifford Toney, is the grandfather of Shaunkivia Nicole “Keke” Smith, one of four people killed in the Saturday night shooting at a “Sweet 16″ birthday party at Mahogany’s Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville.

Toney said he drove to Dadeville when he heard about the shooting.

“When I got there I discovered it was my granddaughter, that she had been shot,” Toney said. “They stressed to me that my granddaughter didn’t make it. So, I was there to comfort my daughter.”

Smith, 17, was a high senior, planning to graduate this spring and attend UAB to study nursing, he said.

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“It’s not okay that gun violence is now the leading cause of death for young people in American,” said Sen. Coleman, who previously introduced Senate Bill 123, the Gun Violence Protective Order Act, similar to “red flag” laws in other states that authorize courts to issue protective orders requiring dangerous individuals to surrender all firearms in their possession to law enforcement. “We must take action and take action now,” she said.

“It’s time to enact common sense gun legislation that ensures responsible gun ownership and keeps guns out of the hands of those who should never, ever have them,” said State Sen. Rodger Smitherman.

“We have a gun problem, Alabama,” Smitherman said. “No child in Alabama should be afraid of getting shot and killed at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party. No child should have to worry about gun violence in their schools or fear one of their classmates bringing their paretns’ gun on campus. No teenager in Alabama should be able to purchase an assault rifle off the street that is designed solely to kill as many people possible, as quickly as possible.”

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan said she will introduce a bill this week ban the sale of assault weapons to those under age 21.

“I will never be silent until Republicans recognize that the Second Amendment comes with responsibilities and limitations,” Givan said. “Until they do, the blood of these murdered children is on their hands.”