Were you a victim of Bullying?

If so, did it stop? what did you do about it? what should community do to stop this? and if your children were being victims, what whould you do about it?
Im asking this question because everyday in the news I hear about a new case of bullying, and some cases are extremely violent, what’s wrong with the children! When I was in school I remember being bullyied by one mean girl, she was very violent and i defended myself by beating her.. gladly after that one episode she never bothered me again, so thank god I did that, cause no teacher would help!