The biggest news story of recent days is the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Twenty-year-old Thomas Crooks only grazed his ear, but he did, sadly, kill another man and critically injure two others. As we have come to expect when hearing news of mass shootings, this perpetrator is reported to have been a victim of bullying.

The massive campaign to rid schools and society of bullies is now fully a quarter of a century old. It was launched in response to the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999, which was committed by two young men who presented themselves as victims of bullying. Researchers who studied previous school shootings discovered that the majority of perpetrators were victims of bullying. It had been known even longer that many kids who die by suicide do so to escape the misery of being bullied. People who are victimized for a long time often develop a dark side, fed by years of degradation by their peers that drives them to seek power, revenge, and possibly notoriety. In extreme cases, they may also have a suicidal motive, expecting to be put out of their misery by law enforcement officers responding to their deadly action.

In order to prevent such tragedies from recurring, the........

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