{"id":442,"date":"2012-12-18T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=9911"},"modified":"2012-12-18T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T12:00:30","slug":"the-morning-buzz-is-the-nras-influence-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/12\/the-morning-buzz-is-the-nras-influence-weakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | Is the NRA\u2019s Influence Weakening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As Americans continue to struggle last week\u2019s tragic shooting, many are looking to clergy to explain how a loving God could have allowed these events to occur. 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