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Rep. John Lewis Stages Sit-In to Demand Gun Control Vote

Mother Jones

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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) led a sit-in on the House floor on Wednesday to demand a vote on the “no fly, no gun” bill, a bipartisan measure that would ban the sale of guns to suspected terrorists on the government’s no-fly list. He was joined by at least a dozen fellow Democrats.

The protest comes in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in American history, which killed 49 people inside an Orlando nightclub on June 12. The massacre prompted a marathon 15-hour filibuster in the Senate to force a vote on gun control bills. On Monday, four gun control measures failed to advance, with nearly every Republican senator voting against them.

Republicans gaveled out of session, therefore blocking C-SPAN from airing the sit-in. Democrats took to social media instead to broadcast the event:

Lewis was a leader in the 1960s civil rights movement and helped organize sit-in demonstrations to challenge segregation laws.

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Rep. John Lewis Stages Sit-In to Demand Gun Control Vote

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