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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

If someone is been bullied by a group I think at that stage it is too late and the bullying has matured, and might be better to change schools. hitting the ringleader may work but I would guess it would result in a group of kids beating the victim up.

Mmm, it might. Good point. OTOH, given the premise that bullies are cowards - and if not, why do they need backup? - sort out the leader and the others are more likely to leave you alone. That isn't certain, I admit, but more likely. And it does seem that the rules have changed in the last 20 years; I never heard of any bully using any sort of weapon when I was that age...probably because such behaviour would have been promptly dealt with, not by the school, but by the police. They didn't have political correctness and all that crap to deal with then. That may be the problem.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Bullying always starts with one person picking someone out and the longer it goes on for others then start to join in and the victim then has a reputation and becomes a easy target

Very true. In fact, my bully had a cohort, but he was such a wuss he was easier to ignore. If I'd hit him, he'd have snapped in half, most likely.

Come to think of it, do we have any police officers, active or retired, on this forum? If so: if we (by some incredible miracle) got a government that decided to do away with all the wishy-washy liberal nonsense that's ruined our entire society over the last 30 years, and put things back more or less the way they were in the 60s, what would you do about, e.g., school bullies?