It's not the guns. Most kids use to have access and probably even own guns and we didn't see this. Now there are less guns and more crime. My opinion is that it's idle time. They used to go to school and work.
And why get a minimum wage job when you can just move a little bit of illegal drugs and make the same money in just a few minutes. These drugs would have a value measured in fractions of a penny if not for the War on Some Drugs.