People actually looked out for one another. After “West Side Story” seems the way to deal with conflicts changed. Remember when the worse fight we’d see was with ‘skin’ not weapons?
You are so right. The boys would fight after school - one on one - usually the tough guys. The rest of the students just stayed away from them. But, never knives or guns were used and our parents had both in our homes.The guns didn’t have locks. We just knew NOT to ever touch them. Of course, that’s when chidren used to listen to their parents.
And when one went down there were no kick to the head the fight was over.