A few of points:
(1) I have not argued here on this thread either for or against drug legalization.
(2) The issue is not "drug related violence" it is violence.
(3) My point was quite simple; people seek money. Not just for illegal drugs, but for everything. Those with intelligence, education, skills, impulse control, etc. have a certain menu of options by which they may obtain money. Others have a more attenuated menu.
(4) Of those people who desire more money than their skill-set will afford them legally to obtain, some subset resort to crime. These people are scum.
(5) You said that the government created these people.
(6) You are wrong. They created themselves.
(7) While it is possible that changing the drug laws would result in fewer people in total choosing crime, that does not mean that these particular scumbags (the ones arrested in the story atop this thread) would be among those who chose the straight life.
(8) Therefore there is no rational reason to make excuses for these, or any other, gun-toting criminal scumbags. To excuse their criminality is an injustice to their victims, and to their peers who stayed straight.