Suspect in Washington state school shooting said victim who died bullied him

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3. I was fortunate to be able to handle bullying with humor when I was a kid;

being a military brat you're usually coming into a school mid-year. the new kid. And being a skinny kid with Govt issued glasses, it never went well. I dealt with it using humor. If they think they're not getting to you, usually they quit picking on you.Fortunately it rarely rose to the level of physical bullying.
I do remember my dad telling me that if the teachers wouldnt do anything if someone was pushing me around, "pick up a stick and whack the bastard in the head"
I look back at the scared 11yr old and wondering if i HAD been physically bullied and no one stopped it, would I have ever gone far enough to have gotten the upper hand using a weapon of some sort. I read some horrible stories about what some kids go thru. The attacker definitely needs to be arrested, but some of these stories make me have a bit less sympathy for the bully.
This particular one, I dont know the level it had reached. But the kid has now ruined his own life as well