In his first interview, Peter Rodger told ABC News' Barbara Walters that he was shocked to learn that his son, Elliot, had killed six people and wounded 13 others in Isla Vista., Calif last month. "We didn't see this coming at all," Rodger said, adding that prior to the rampage he didn't think his son "could hurt a flea."

Seattle police have arrested 23-year-old Keshav Bhide after he allegedly made comments online about killing women and praising the shootings carried out by Elliot Rodger at the University of California, Santa Barbara last month, where seven students were killed. In one message he allegedly wrote, "everything Elliot did is perfectly justified."

Yesterday's New York Times had a long story about misogynist spree killer Elliot Rodger, with the main takeaway being this: many people who knew Rodger as a kid were not in the least bit shocked that he ended up murdering six people.

At the same time as 20,000 students gathered for a vigil honoring the victims of last week's mass shooting, cops seized 7 guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition from a 21-year-old Santa Barbara student who nearly shot a neighbor through the wall of his apartment.

In a discussion with Tony Perkins, president of the hate group Family Research Council, FRC senior fellow (aka well-paid intern?) Ken Blackwell blamed gays and the acceptance of them for Elliot Rodger's mass shooting. Hey, why not?

On Thursday, Peter and Chin Rodger, the parents of University of California, Santa Barbara gunman Elliot Rodger, released their first statement since Friday's shooting, describing the situation as "hell on earth."

America's gun conversation, to the extent that there is one, is facile, extreme and led by monied interests on both ends. The NRA is awful and the vocal anti-gun left is little better—focused on superficial answers to a culture-wide problem. Here are some reform ideas that ought to be taken seriously.

The latest theory about what prompted UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger to snap and murder people: his "addiction" to the weightlifting supplement creatine. This can be properly understood as "complete fiction." (Update: and as complete trolling.)

Killers before Elliot Rodger have left behind long messages detailing their grievances, but his had a rare clarity. He hated women. He wanted to kill them. He set out this past Friday evening to do just that. You might think in terms of commentary on his motives, that would be The End.

When the subject of lethal firearms and mass killers and gun regulations comes up, as it will again and again, keep this quote handy. These are the words of Elliot Rodger on getting home with his first handgun, not long before his massacre in Isla Vista:

When Elliot Rodger began randomly murdering UCSB students Friday night, his concerned parents were reportedly on their way to Isla Vista to try to stop him.

Tech rainmaker Marc Andreessen once boasted that Rap Genius would one day "annotate the world." If you needed yet another reminder of how utterly worthless that would be, read the creepy and weird annotations left by company cofounder Mahbod Moghadam on the memoir of UCSB spree killer Elliot Rodger.

This afternoon, at least three bodies were removed from the apartment of suspected UCSB shooterElliot Rodger.

The video made by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger proclaiming his motives for allegedly killing six and leaving seven injured near UCSB's campus yesterday, has already been taken down, but the remainder of his bizarre and troubling confessional YouTube "vlogs" have been left up.

Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who is linked to a drive-by shooting near UC Santa Barbara's campus yesterday, had uploaded a video last night that revealed his motives, claiming "I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you," after a long monologue against women.

Authorities report that a gunman and six others were killed, with seven more injured, when a shooter opened fire in the college town of Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara on Friday night.