Richard Martinez, whose son, 20 year-old Christopher died along with five others at a drive-by shooting incident, said that politicians would have tightened gun laws already thanks to similar, earlier incidents like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Reuters said.
Pundits tackle the events that lead 22 year-old college student Elliott Rodger to kill 6 people and injure 13 others in a shootout near the University of California, Santa Barbara, and how authorities could have prevented it based on what warrants a police response, the Los Angeles Times said.
Following his performance at a music festival downtown a day ago, rapper Wiz Khalifa got himself arrested at the El Paso International Airport for carrying a canister with marijuana, CBS News said.
Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, to the shock of his colleagues and attendees at a committee hearing on Parliament House security, presented a fake homemade pipe bomb to prove a point about the effects of relaxing building security, The Associated Press said.
