Jim Moses: Tying it all together
Jim Moses
Community Columnist
We ve been looking at DNA for a while. It can help us find our families. DNA doesn t lie, but it doesn t always lead us where we want to go. If you have taken a DNA test you know what I mean. You spit in a tube or swab the inside of your mouth, send it in, and poof you have thousands of matches. All that seems great, but when you start looking, you soon realize most of those matches are distant cousin. When I see something like fifth to eighth cousin I don t usually look at it unless it shares surnames with my tree. Eighth cousin is a l-o-n-g way from a close relationship, and with most of them we will never be able to make the connection. On top of that, many people only take the test to see what amount of what ethnic groups they have, so they don t even have a tree on the website.
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Ray Buursma: Mass shootings, voter suppression, and transparency
By Ray Buursma
Two mass shootings. Again
Opposition to gun control. Again.
Nothing changes. Again.
The reason nothing changes is more judicial than political. The Supreme Court has already ruled on gun ownership (see my column of Jan. 29, 2013). Nothing short of repealing the Second Amendment will remove firearms from Americans’ hands, so I suggest we change focus. Rather than target firearms, target the perpetrators’ states of mind.
Many shooters are emotionally or mentally disturbed, even if only temporarily. They are angry, sad, frustrated, annoyed, troubled, irritated, distraught or distressed, so much so they act irrationally and in harmful ways. Some shoot innocent victims. Some shoot themselves.