Saul Cornell is a professor of history at Fordham, a gun-control advocate, and a contributor to Slate. I have concluded that he fabricated evidence for his most recent article.
If you follow the gun-control debate, then you are used to gun-control advocates (some of whom pose as straight-news reporters) making elementary mistakes, often out of pure ignorance — for example, they regularly confuse semiautomatic weapons (which fire one round with each pull of the trigger) and fully automatic weapons (machine guns) or dramatically understate current restrictions on gun sales. As I will show in this column, this is not a mistake of that kind — it is an actual fabrication, a made-up “fact” of the sort associated with such journalistic fantasists as Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass.
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