Kansas City police chief Stacey Graves said Thursday that the Chiefs parade shooting in which a woman was killed began as a "dispute" between several individuals. (Credit: WDAF) The student-led organization March for Our Lives has spoken out in the aftermath of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting, deeming the violence a "depressingly American" tragedy.
The anti-gun lobbyist group, comprised of youth activists, posted a flurry of statements about the shooting on social media where they called for action and criticized U.S.
gun laws. "There is something so depressingly American about experiencing a mass shooting at a Super Bowl celebration on the anniversary of another mass shooting," the organization tweeted on Valentine's Day.
March for Our Lives also retweeted a comment from actress Alyssa Milano later Wednesday, who similarly wrote: "Nothing more American than a shooting at a parade.