The explanations for the Columbine High School tragedy have been varied but equally absurd. Guns and Charlton Heston are the first villains, with the profound Rosie O'Donnell suggesting , the Constitution aside, that guns need to go. Hillary Clinton cited violent movies and video games, apparently before checking with her frequent Hamptons host and erstwhile defense fund contributor, Steven Speilberg, who gave us 22 minutes of big screen horror in the ballyhooed Saving Private Ryan. Pop language and psychology amid tragedy provided this Oxford graduate president with a welcome reprieve from the Kosovo debacle. He spoke early, often and lip-bitingly about the tragedy five times in three days.
Liberals unabashedly use tragedy for regulatory conquest.
Psychobabblers propose more school interventions for so-called Goths who walk campuses in black trench coats. Gun legislation will not prevent another Columbine tragedy. Guns did not cause Littleton, nor did a lack of school intervention. Public schools will never be permitted to isolate students on the basis of their wardrobes or psychotic term papers. There are too many clueless administrators.