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Sadism Is Rational

Finally, recognition of what should have been obvious.

Aug 12, 2019
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Dmitriy Andreychenko is a white 20-year-old Missouri man who did something that might not have triggered a panic, say, five or six years ago. But the landscape of gun politics seems to be shifting a bit. The young man’s actions got him arrested. His story illustrates a point I’m going to make in this edition. Sadism isn’t crazy. It’s rational. 

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