Don McGlashan has always been a great story teller through song and "A Thing Well Made" is no exception. While it seems subtle, nothing more than a fictional tale of a Christchurch sports store owner going through his day. At one stage even admiring the firearms to the point of imagining the craftsman holding the finished product with a high degree of satisfaction. Finishing with the dispatching of the mail orders... particularly an AK47 to a collector down the line. If you are still with me, yeah, not too fascinating at all. However, the so-called collector (while not named) was David Gray from a small seaside town of Aramoana, near Dunedin. David Gray was the perpetrator of New Zealand's worst massacre. He killed 13 people after a dispute with a neighbour in 1990. A very dark moment in our history. While the song is from a very different perspective... it is still chilling.
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