Littwin: There’s new Colorado research on kids and access to guns

Despite what Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have you believe, research matters.

It’s a strongly held MAGA tenet that experts are unreliable and that people should do their own research — you know, like on the best way to treat your child’s cancer — and that, in any case, Trump knows all or, at minimum, better. Much, much better.

This won’t surprise you, but I beg to differ. Although faith in institutions of all kinds has rapidly fallen — much of the falling, by the way, preceding Trump’s terms in office — I’m pretty sure most people still understand that there are researchers who might know just a little more about, say, climate change than those who merely call it a hoax because someone said so on Newsmax.

But we have to worry about more than just MAGA words. More importa