As if the nation was not already numbed by the senseless brutality carried out by teen killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris in the Columbine High School massacre that claimed 15 lives, yet another stunning development has been revealed.

The youths made videotapes prior to the April 20 shootings in which they detailed their plan to kill 250 people, cursed Blacks, Hispanics, Jews and even whites, and apologized to their parents for what they were about to do.

They bragged that they actually had planned their attack prior to other school attacks that occurred across the country, belittling those assaults as amateurish. They expressed a desire to cause so much carnage that they live in our memories forever.

Even more chilling is the boys� desire to see their story picked up by a famous filmmaker�they named Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino�to do a film on their murders. Which begs the question, where do our youth get these ideas? Are they acting out the images they see in the movies or on television? Or does television merely reflect what�s going on in society?

If Hollywood never got the message before, they should listen to Klebold and Harris whose actions speak louder than words and scream for more responsible programming. Why would they even think their story would be of interest to Hollywood if these weren�t the kinds of images they grew so use to seeing�graphic, violent images. "Directors will be fighting over this story," Klebold says on the video.

The makers of the video games, whose life-like violence give many teens and adults a tingling thrill every time they rip out an opponent�s spine, should rethink what they are actually marketing to the public and suggesting to our youth. That violence is mainstream.

According to Klebold and Harris, their parents did all the right things in raising them. Certainly there were signs that the parents missed that could have short-circuited the boys� plans. But parents are missing signals every day as more and more incidents like Columbine occur.

There was a music band that once wrote a song, "America Eats Its Young." Today, our youth are biting back.