As anyone who has held a real sword can tell you, they are cool. There is something in holding a few pounds of metallic death that sings to the soul. Even oriental swords have a weak echo of this feeling.
We will never stop this being cool, so why not make it realistic?
We can get daggers with fencing blades and safe messers, there are people out there who would be good judges of the injuries collected. Let's just let kids stab each other in safety (with bare minimum of actual instruction- try to reflect exactly what would happen if they pulled a knife on someone).
Since practically everyone has a mobile phone, send them a text message saying
You are now a murderer, oh and by the way unless you look after the wound you got you will die from bloodloss soon. Good luck approaching the hospital- they've been told to look out for people who have been in a knife fight.
Get the loser to lie in situe for an hour or so. Maybe even draw a chalk outline. Send the message 'do this for real and you will die'. Give them tales of duels where the 'winner' was the chap who died second.
Make them realise that there is no such thing as a knife fight, it's a stabbing competition. The idea that you will come out of one unharmed is ridiculous. Do this for real and you will die. If they still want to fight, then help them do it safely.
Drum it in- swordplay and knife fighting is cool, it's great fun, it provides lots of benefits like improved health and so on.
Swords and fighting are cool. Killing people isn't.
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