Gangs: A pathetic excuse to avoid hard work?

hear a lot youngsters nowdays blaming the goverment for them joining/being apart of gangs, and therefore that's justifying why they go out and shot people in the head with guns. A lot say that they had a bad childhood, weren't treated fairly or come from urban areas where life is hard, well...I'm sorry (not really) but I haven't had exactly a brilliant childhood either and I am no where near financially comfortable, and yet I've worked really hard with jobs since I was 13 finding them off my own back and I've worked hard to get good graded GCSEs and A levels, no one has helped me, I didn't use bad experiences and childhood as an excuse not to work and to go round killing people and selling drugs and causing havoc in society, have I? And neither have a lot of hard-working intelligent people