Washington - Democrats from the US House of Representatives began to demobilize the House plenary occupation of protest on Thursday, but promised to renew their fight for greater gun control after the shots the massacre at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida despite strong opposition from Republicans.
Several Democratic lawmakers took the House floor for 16 hours sitting in the hallways and causing the suspension of work, to charge that the Republican leaders in the House allow a vote on legislation on weapons, after the June 12 attack in which a man armed killed 49 people and wounded 53.
Republicans later regained control of the House, adopted a number of measures unrelated and announced that there will be no more votes until the national holiday of July 4.
But Representative John Lewis, a Georgia state Democrat and leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s that led the protest in the House, said the fight to increase gun control will continue.
"Today we gain ground. We made some progress. We crossed a bridge, but we have other bridges to cross," said Lewis. "And when we come back in July, we start all over again. The American people want us to act, want us to do something."
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