Is Giving a Bullied Child A Stun Gun OK?

This week's topic deals with bullying. It's a topic , only this time, a parent has made headlines for telling her son to fight back.

An Indiana mother who sent her gay son to school with a stun gun after she felt administrators hadn't done enough to stop bullying against him told CNN anchor Don Lemon she would do it again, even though the teen expelled for doing so.

"I do not promote violence -- not at all -- but what is a parent to do when she has done everything that she felt she was supposed to do ... at the school?" the mother, Chelisa Grimes, said in a CNN interview. "I did feel like there was nothing else left for me to do, but protect my child."

Grimes sent her son, Darnell "Dynasty" Young, to Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis with the stun gun after he said he was taunted and bullied for months about being gay and his attire.

On April 16 about six students surrounded him at school calling him names and threatening to beat him up, and Young pulled the stun gun from his backpack. He raised it in the air, setting off an electric charge, and sending the group scurrying. Young said he only pointed it in the air and not at anyone, to scare them away.

A stun gun has to be near or pressed against a person to shock them. According to a 2009 National School Climate Survey of 7,261 middle and high school students, nearly nine out of 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students had experienced harassment at school. Nearly two-thirds felt unsafe because of their sexual orientation.

So for those parents in , if you know your child or another child is LGBT, what do you do when her or she is being bullied? Is it okay to allow them to protect themself with a stun gun when you've felt you exhausted all other avenues? Tell us in the comments section.