Nor would my wife. Nor would the other adults, supposed guardians of decency in underaged society. If you had shot that boy that night, it would not have been good, but it would not have been bad. The bully's chances of curing an illness or writing something worthwhile are limited at best. We just didn't want to catch any ricocheting bullets.
Guns are easy to come by.
They deserve it, all of them. Of course they do. Just hold out two or three or four or whatever years it is until you turn 18, and leave the stupid rotten idiots you went to school with and the apathetic adults who didn't give a damn while you were ostracized and beaten up. If another adult hits you and you don't hit him back, you get to watch smugly as he learns his Mirandas. At the very least you can get a court to order him to stay the hell away from you.