By Jim Irvine

Last week Jerry "Bucky" Inman was arrested for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Tiffany Marie Souers, a 20 year-old civil engineering student at Clemson University in South Carolina. The “mainstream” media and the talking heads continue to make this event into a national story. But it’s difficult to find anything useful in their coverage.

Consider a typical comment from The State:

”He should have never been out to victimize the girl in South Carolina,” said Laura McElroy, a spokeswoman with the Tampa Police Department.

In some cosmic sense, this may be true, but that is another debate. The statement is about as relevant as, “He should have never broken into her apartment, bound her hands and feet, brutally raped her and then strangled her with her bikini top and left her dead on her apartment floor.” That is what happened. What “should have” does not matter.

Saying, “It’s not supposed to rain” when you leave your windows open will not keep your stuff dry. It’s just another version of, “It won’t happen to me.” It won’t - until the day that it does.

Rape, murder, or other violent crime can leave you and your family scarred forever. You must take appropriate steps to ensure it does not happen to those you love. There are many good steps you can take, but most media seems intent on giving all the information they can generate, as long as is it’s not even remotely useful to you.

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