The Associated Press photo says it all. Beth Nimmo, whose daughter was killed in the Columbine High School massacre last year, holds up a videotape in a plain white wrapper while she wipes tears away from her eyes.The video showed the bullet-riddled, blood-spattered interior of Columbine High immediately after the shootings took place, as well as footage of wounded and dead students. That this video even exists is bad enough. Even worse is the fact that Jefferson County (where Columbine is located) authorities are selling copies to the general public for $25 a pop.A local firefighter originally made the video as a training aide to help law-enforcement personnel deal with shooting attacks. We consider this a legitimate use of the tape’s content matter. Relatives of six shooting victims sued to get copies of the tape to use as evidence in their lawsuit against local authorities. The worthiness of their lawsuit is a matter for the courts to decide, but we believe allowing relatives of victims and victims of the shooting to have access to the tape is also legitimate.But selling copies to anyone who wants one?That our society has a great many closet voyeurs is no secret. Videos such as the “Faces of Death” series, which show real people and animals being violently killed or tortured, or the infamous Tommy and Pamela Lee sex tape, all feed a thirst present in many of us to see “the real thing.” But the dead and wounded bodies on the Columbine tape are not anonymous victims. We’ve seen their faces. We know where they went to school. We know where they lived. And where they died. We also know they weren’t much more than children when they met their violent, undeserved ends. Still-living victims and the families of the dead have a right to see where and how their loved ones met their ends. If see the tape will help the police in any way, then they should watch it.But no one else should.