Time’s cover puts spotlight on U.S. mass shootings
Posted August 9, 2019 10:05 am.
Last Updated August 9, 2019 12:46 pm.
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Following two mass shootings in the United States over the weekend, Time magazine’s latest cover is putting the focus on gun violence the fight against white nationalist terrorism.
The names of the 253 U.S. cities where mass shootings have taken place so far this year are on the magazine cover, along with the bolded words “enough.”
Last Saturday, a 22-year-old man walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and allegedly murdered 22 people.
The following day a 24-year-old man, wearing body armour, opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people, including his sister, and wounding dozens of others before he was killed by police.
John Mavroudis designed the cover and said he was trying to illustrate how widespread the gun violence problem in America is.
“It’s [an] instinctual thing to look for your own city, and I think more often than not, you’ll find your own city or you’ll also…find some city right near you,” he said. “This cuts across red states and blue states and rural and cities and it’s endemic in America.”
Mavroudis said he’s been getting a lot of feedback on the cover.
“I think having the totality of those events and realizing that doesn’t even account for individual incidents, is quite profound on people,” he said. “I’ve been seeing a lot of social media interaction and emails and people can’t believe for a single year and we’re only in August.”
See an image of the cover below:
