Yeah folks got shot in the 80' and 90' but when I was in HS, if you took a L in a straight up fight, and came back shooting it was still "frowned on" if that makes any sense. Like yeah we knew it could escalate possibly, but if your squared up and loss, you'd get joked on, but you earned stripes and lived to fight another day hopefully. When I was like 12 the older kid next door to me got killed when some upped strap during an argument that should have just been handled with hands, everybody had gathered expecting a fight and ended up seeing a murder.
But even then folks came to jump you , you could still ask for the fair one, didn't always happen, especially if no one was there to watch your back lol. I got into so much nonsense in HS, I'm just glad people didn't go straight for guns. I was 6'3" and played football, so it was always an attempt to sneak me, or get your big cousin to come help, but it was never to the point anybody had to go to the hospital, just hood/school squabbling.