Why is Matt Yglesias?

Reflexive contrarianism will doom us all.

At 11:32 AM yesterday, an 18-year-old man armed with an AR-15, a handgun, and high-capacity magazines opened fire on students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Two adults and 19 children between the ages of seven and 10 were slaughtered before police killed the shooter, making it the second-deadliest school shooting on record (26 people were …