In less than a week's time accusing fingers were pointed at everything from the massacre occurring on the day after the fourth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing to it being Adolf Hitler's 110th birthday.

Liberals whined about the easy access of guns.

Conservatives stuck it to lax parents and the content of a unregulated World Wide Web.

Everyone had a convenient scapegoat at whose feet the blame could be lain.

Child psychologists and authors whose books on killer kids had been gathering dust at Barnes and Noble found their phones ringing off the hook from networks looking for some instant analysis. What city didn't have a news anchor announce just before breaking for commercial, "Next, we'll have an expert who will tell us the seven warning signs every parent should look for to predict if Johnny will become a gun-wielding psycho."

The easy thing to do in a senseless situation is to demand more law and order. Parents must be held accountable and in some cases, legally culpable, for the actions of their children.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) scaled back to one day, but refused to outright cancel, their scheduled convention in Denver. NRA officials helpfully suggested passing conceal-and-carry gun laws and arming school principals.

Yeah, great idea guys but why think small? Why not go all out and train teachers in Navy SEAL combat tactics and station an Apache helicopter armed with Hellfire missiles on the roof of every American high school?

More laws will be passed.

More studies will be commissioned.

The investigation and eventual prosecution of...someone will occur because the public will demand somebody be held accountable.

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Right now, the only professionals in Littlelton outnumbering cops and reporters are lawyers trying to line up clients to sue everybody connected to this carnage. For as sure --- as day follows night --- lawsuits and calls for censorship bloom like crabgrass in this super-heated environment.

There are times when it is difficult to explain the WHY of a situation and this is beginning to look awfully like one of those times.

Klebold and Harris spared the taxpayers the expense of their trials by killing themselves so they won't be answering questions in any court of this world's jurisdiction. That inconvenient detail won't stop every social critic with an axe to grind from associating blame to their favorite patsy.

People who had never heard of "Gothic" music and dress are driving themselves to distraction listening to Maryln Manson CD's. The Internet is being madly surfed for Goth websites dripping with doom and gloom. "Look, I found one!" is probably the cry going out in newsrooms.

CBS News' "60 Minutes" featured a piece where violent video games such as Doom and movies featuring auteur splatter scenes as in "Natural Born Killers" and "The Basketball Diaries" took the weight for triggering sick minds into committing murder. Bet anything that those flicks flew off of the shelves of your friendly, neighborhood video store over the weekend.

Expelling body pierced students sporting black fingernails and trenchcoats will not stop the shootings. Calls for censoring the access of children to the Internet is the cry from pinheads who confuse access to dangerous ideas to putting them into action. If you locked up everyone who ever listened to KMFDM, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails or any other band that worshiped death, gloom and dementia you'd overflow every prison cell in the country.

As the words "Monica Lewinsky" and "impeachment" vanish from the airwaves, in rushes "Trenchcoat Mafia" and "Goth" to fill the void.

Beyond all the blabbering and blathering from experts and talking heads on television it begins to dawn just how clueless these people really are.

As the body count dwindled from 25 to 20 to 15, so too did the misinformation and confusion mount. The more we hear the less we know about what set off the two misfits at Columbine.

What must be emphasized in this insatiable urge to find a goat to bear the burden is that two young boys went nuts, armed themselves to the teeth and shot up a high school.

We can blame computers, uninvolved parents, bad music, black clothes and dead dictators if that's what satisfies.

The only person who seemed on point over whom should take the hottest heat over the Columbine slaughter was Andy Rooney of "60 Minutes" who used his minutes to remind the viewers it was the nuts with the guns and bombs who spilled the blood. I agree.