Time’s cover lists 253 US cities that have seen a mass shooting this year

Nahla Abdelmonem

A handful of the 253 US cities were listed on Time magazine’s latest cover, which hits newsstands on Friday.

What all of those cities have in common is that each experienced a mass shooting this year.

The cover comes after a weekend of deadly mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, and as calls to do something about gun violence and domestic terrorism ramp up again.

“TIME’s new cover: ‘We are being eaten from within.’ Why America is losing the battle against white nationalist terrorism,” the magazine wrote in a tweet announcing the cover.

On August 4, 2019, the city of Dayton, Ohio, witnessed an extremist shooting at people near a bar, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens. And on 3 August 2019, a similar incident has killed 20 people and injured others in El Paso, Texas.

Moreover, on August 9, 19-year-old Santino William Legan opened fire at the food festival on July 28, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. More than a dozen people were wounded.

San Francisco Bay Area artist John Mavroudis drew the cover, calling it a “frightening portrait of a country drowning in gun violence.”

Against the backdrop of the list of cities, the word “ENOUGH” is emblazoned across the cover in capital letters. The theme is similar to last year’s cover featuring survivors from the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Under it, the text reads: “A year of gun violence in America. So far.”

This type of extremism is escalating in several regions, not only the United States but also European countries such as Germany and others, and this quality has been increasing steadily since 2016, according to a study by ICCT Policy Brief.