Unfortunately all these bleeding-heart pansies are crying cruelty
Zigackly!
you can stand on your head and whistle dixie as far as i'm concerned. a bully is not welcome in my world and any bully that gets something like this happen to him and his cohorts witness it, deserves every damn thing that happens to him/her.
a bullied child can only take so much before that child snaps. why do you think there is this shooting happening at the schools in the US? it's because these kids are bullied to the degree that they are. the sooner people sit up and take note the better. it's all fine and well for their peers to say oh so and so was such a quiet person who got on with everyone but behind closed doors that child was bullied relentlessly by his peers as a child because he was "different". because he didn't "fit in". and you wonder why he snapped and shot a few people at the school or at the movie theater? here's your answer.
when is this schit going to stop? it's time for parents of the bullied child to take a stand and stand up to their child's bully. take that bully on themselves and the parent of the bullied child bully the big fat bully and let the bully see what it's like himself.
Celine - I went to an all-boy school. Let's use old-school references here: If someone in Std 7 gave me grief when I was in Std 8, and a Std 9/10 boy saw that, without me doing something about it - I'd be opening myself up to abuse from the older guys.
Is it bullying when you're asserting your position in the jungle and, trust me, an all-boy school is a jungle?
It's all very well to sit there and bemoan the circumstances surrounding bullying, but let me just throw this out there:
All boys grow into men, and a man knows how to look after himself and the people he cares about. Being some ***** that gets whacked around isn't going to do you any favours when you get older - men don't give a toss: it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. They'll steal your woman, your car, your house, and anything else you don't have the balls to hold onto, because that is what men do!
Now let me elaborate: lots of men out there would do that. Some of us have learnt that being a man is more than your ability to show everyone else you're stronger, and more intelligent than everyone else. That being a man is about doing what you must when you have to, and exercising restraint when there are other avenues that don't require violence.
Boys become men, but it's up to their parents to teach them how to be a decent man. The situation here is twofold:
1. The bully was wrong, but who knows what he's been through - maybe he's just taking it out on someone else because he, too, is a victim?
2. The victim took extreme action - what the hell did his parents teach him, and why did he feel so alone that he couldn't speak to his mother, who is a cop for Frith's sake?
I was lucky - I had two much older brothers. Do you think I went running to them every time someone bigger than me gave me a thumping? No - my brothers would have put them in hospital, and how do you think that would have panned out: for me at school, and for them?
It took one of my bigger friends giving me smack upside the head to realize that I was being a douche - I don't blame him, he taught me a lesson. He didn't do it maliciously, and me running the smaller guys around as my personal slaves wasn't intentionally being full of douche-baggery: it just seemed like part of the natural pecking order.
I got bullied when I arrived in the UK from SA - 1978 - and I'm talking 3 douche bags chasing me around every break time. The time came when I had had enough: a broken jaw later and a visit to the headmaster's office, and I never got bullied again (in that school). I had to move to another school, and the same thing happened, with almost the same corrective measures on my part.
Parents need to educate their children, and make them strong for the world - clearly the 'victim' had no communication with his parents. Supervised breaks should be considered - surely there are enough teachers in a school to give up one break per week?
Still sounds like you reckon death was the proper punishment here.
you guys are funny as hell 
And in this case though the loss of life should be mourned the bully's life being lost should not,people who take action though frowned upon by many are lauded as heroes by those that were there