Connecticut delegation joins sit-in for vote on gun legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Connecticut’s Congressional delegation joined 40 other Democratic representatives Wednesday in a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to force a vote on gun control legislation.

The sit-in was led by U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who said it is sometimes necessary to “dramatize the need for action.” He said sometimes you have to do something out of the ordinary and make a path where there was no path.

“We have lost hundreds of thousands of people to gun violence,” Lewis said. “. . . And what has this body done? Not one thing.”

“Newtown, Aurora, Charleston, Orlando. What is the tipping point?” Lewis asked in his remarks prior to the sit-in.

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