WATCH: 'Enough is enough': US students stage walkouts against guns

TSgt David L., I am so empathetic (I feel it) with the point of bulling. My son was bullied until he started to fight back. He had a major strike against him, not being Negro, being big as the legend of Paul Bunyon. He was being punished because he was big. I started kicking a-- in court based on "bullying". The federal department of education had it in the handbook, but unless you stumbled across it you didn't know that your child was being violated because local schools dismissed it. I raised so much hell with the school system, until all staff walked on eggshells until my son graduated. The principal of his high school asked me if I had any other children that would come through his school. Once my son put some bully out of his misery, he would have caged and forgotten and the bullies marytered. HOWEVER, this does not dismiss the shooting issue. TEACHERS should have been taking the reins and requesting that the principal's take formal action, including legal, against bullies. I won't go so far as to say to take the parents to court and prosecute them. I would say PARENTS should have been compelled to follow a court outlined intervention to demonstrate they were attempting to work with the school system to resolve the bullying. Then if bullies wanted to be repeat offenders, others options would come into play.

Ahhhh different times. I was a bi-racial kid back when it wasn't cool. White kids called me wetback and half breed. Mexican kids called me "caca pollo" (chicken crap that is mostly white). My Dad taught me to ignore verbal insults, but when I came home bloody and bruised, and the school did nothing, he had a different lesson. If I didn't draw blood, I'd get the belt. When I started winning, that's when the school got upset. At the first disciplinary conference between my father and the school, he brought a lawyer. The lawyer had deposed kids who were witnesses to me not starting the fights, and brought the depositions. The lawyer said that since the school would not protect me, I had to protect myself. Things would change or the school system would be paying for my verrrrry expensive private education, and the bullies would be as badly injured as necessary to convince all not to lay hands on me.