Is it normal that habitual bullies should face extreme punishment

There was this little fuck named peder in high school that would always pick on me and my friends. Broke my friends nose once. Stole a bunch of money from my PE locker. We got a bunch of people together and jumped him one day after school. We bRoke both of his forearms with a baseball bat. After that he never fucked with anyone again.

A girl used to pick on me in middle school. She'd always insult me, boss me around, and take my snacks at lunchtime. So I took my cookie and dropped it on the floor. Then my friends spit on it. Then we watched her eat it. When she was done eating it we told her what we did. She never took my snack again.

Well in psychology Ive learned that people degrade others as a reflex to save their own egos. That being said bullying is NOT ok. And seeing as younger children are taking their own lives because of bullying i think it's only right to have punishment against the people who are doing the bullying. That way there is a consequence and people will hopefully not do it.

I agree. The sad thing is that victims used to be allowed to fight back at their bullies. However, nowadays it seems like the bullies get off easy whenever there's any fighting and the kid who is standing up for themselves gets in trouble. Bullshit. It's especially sad that so many kids seem to take a passive and victim approach with their bullies. They don't know how to fight their own battles.

Not ever having been on either side of the equation, I've always wondered at what point the beating one might take from standing up to a bully is preferable to the humiliation of continual bullying.
I'm not talking about Columbine, et al., but just kicking the bastard in the balls and not running away. Seems to me that is the solution to the whole problem.