Dorothy Rabinowitz

About the author: Dorothy Rabinowitz is an author, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator, and member of the Wall Street Journal'seditorial board.

Some students experience bullying from their peers at school. However, bullying should not be used as an excuse for school shootings. By placing so much emphasis on the dangers of harassment, modern society has turned the shooters into the victims. Charles Andrew Williams, the shooter at Santee High School in southern California, and other assailants disregard society's taboos against murder in order to commit these crimes.

By now, thanks to the new school massacre, there can hardly be an American who hasn't heard of the latest newly discovered menace to the nation's peace and security—namely, bullying. Yes, there are people here and there who will wonder...