{"id":9,"date":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2013\/02\/01\/take-action-call-congress-monday-february-4-to-stop-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"take-action-call-congress-monday-february-4-to-stop-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/01\/take-action-call-congress-monday-february-4-to-stop-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKE ACTION! CALL CONGRESS MONDAY FEBRUARY 4 TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none; font-style:normal; font-weight:400; color:rgb(70, 69, 69); \">                      <span style=\"\">Through the good graces of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, we have access to a toll free number through which you may call Congress urging them to end gun violence. All people seeking an end to gun violence have been invited to use this toll-free number.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Call your Representative and Senators Monday February 4 to urge them to end gun violence by implementing legislative measures to protect all citizens!<br \/> Urge your members of Congress to support:<br \/> \u2013 Universal background checks on all guns sold in any place or venue,<br \/> and<br \/> \u2013 A rigorous ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips (also called \u201cmagazines\u2019\u201d).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Just call 1-888-427-0530 to link to your Representative and Senators .You will likely have to call three times \u2013 once to the House, once each to your Senators to deliver this very clear message.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Tell them your name and address, then give them this simple message:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">\u201cWe as people of the faith community, ask them to uphold these two legislative and moral goals and to do so quickly before more lives are lost.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Create universal background checks on all guns sold in any place or venue and<br \/> Provide a rigorous ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Call 1-888-427-0530 on Monday, February 4 to deliver this simple, clear message.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Thank you!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>      <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the good graces of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, we have access to a toll free number through &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/01\/take-action-call-congress-monday-february-4-to-stop-gun-violence\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}