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in comparison to a place such as New Zealand. Contrasting Gray’s killings with the constant barrage of shootings in America makes the film a powerful analysis of how gun culture has corrupted the U.S. His depiction of the massacre is as emotional as it is chilling. Director and co-writer Robert Sarkies uses Out of the Blue to show the devastating personal damage of a rampage like the one Gray commits. This single event was the catalyst for serious debates about gun violence, which led to changes in the firearms regulations only a couple years later in 1992. Gray’s killing spree lasted almost twenty-four hours before he was shot down by the New Zealand Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and died in an ambulance before arriving at the hospital. The screenplay examines the day of November 13th, 1990 when 33-year-old David Malcolm Gray (portrayed by Matthew Sunderland) went on a rampage in the township of Aramoana using a semi-automatic rifle and a cache of other weapons, resulting in the murders of thirteen people. The 2006 film Out of the Blue depicts New Zealand’s wake-up call with gun violence. While it’s smart to not trust the government as far you can throw them, it’s borderline psychopathic to think that, after endless killings with rifles of all sorts, the solution to the problem is to keep frothing at the mouth over the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

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The supposedly inalienable rights of Americans to bear arms is one of the strangest pieces of any nation’s constitution, yet many angry men and women are convinced they’re going to be the last line of defence as a citizens’ militia when the government comes for them- curiously those same people haven’t taken their assault rifles down to free any immigrant children from cages in the desert, go figure. People who’ve seen it as a worse steady decline than ever since Sandy Hook have good reason to feel that way.

The scene of the crime was a Connecticut beer distribution warehouse.America’s all but resigned itself as a nation to being rocked every week or so by new gun massacres.

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3, truck driver Omar Thornton killed eight co-workers before shooting himself. 10, Davie was executed by lethal injection. In 1991, Roderick Davie was fired from a pet supply store in Ohio, and later came back and shot three, killing two, at the company warehouse. Such murderers have reared up in many occupations - airlines, electronics manufacturers, printing companies, insurance firms, and banks. His job performance is usually poor, and he may have just recently received a warning or a pink slip.īut being a post office employee is not necessarily part of that profile. This kind of murder, occupational homicide, is on the rise, contends Kelleher in his book 'Profiling the Lethal Employee.' The killer is often a man much like Sherrill, a loner with behavioral quirks that have made people nervous for years. 'Going postal' became a synonym for flipping out under pressure. In the years to come, other cases of murderous rages by mailmen cemented the idea in the public mind. One theory was that the post office was such a high-pressure work environment that it drove people insane. In the aftermath, the country struggled with the whys and hows and what lit this fuse. Later, investigators broke into Sherrill's house and found a cluttered mess of guns and computers, a Ham radio, 10 sets of neatly folded military camouflage gear, piles of paper, and stacks of magazines, mostly Solider of Fortune and Soviet Life. It all ended when Sherrill shot himself at a supervisor's desk. One wounded victim staggered out to the parking lot, where he died. Some tried to hide, while others were picked off as they sat at desks or in the break room. One witness said terrified workers 'scattered like flies' as the gunman walked through the building. Then they saw blood and bodies falling as Sherrill sprayed the room with bullets. Next to die was postman Mike Rockne, the grandson of the legendary Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne.Īt first, employees thought they were hearing fireworks. He walked up to one of the supervisors who had reprimanded him the day before, Richard Esser, and shot him in the chest, killing him instantly. 45-caliber semi-automatic pistols, property of the National Guard, and his own. 19, 1986, two of his supervisors told him he had to shape up.īright and early the next morning, Sherrill came to the office, his mailbag slung over his shoulder. As before, he had little to do with co-workers and his job performance was mediocre to poor. In April 1985 he landed a position at the Edmond post office as a permanent part-time letter carrier.

BUT HIS performance at anything other than shooting was far from a bull's-eye.

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