Tallahassee included twice on TIME magazine cover declaring 'ENOUGH' on mass shootings
TIME magazine's August 19, 2019, cover reads "ENOUGH."
What's surrounding the the black, bolded word? The 253 locations where mass shootings have taken place just this year in America.
Tallahassee appears twice and anchors the cover as the site of two mass shootings in 2019.
The magazine, working with the Gun Violence Archive, pointed to a New Year's Day shooting at a Pensacola Street shopping center that resulted in five gunshot victims with non-life threatening injuries and an April 6 shooting at a house party that left four FAMU students injured.
Both shootings remain under investigation by the Tallahassee Police Department but no arrests have been made in either case.
Uncounted because it happened in 2018 was the horrific mass shooting in a Hot Yoga studio after a gunman killed two and injured four others before turning the gun on himself.
The Hot Yoga Studio shooting:
- Tallahassee Yoga studio Shooting: Key dates in shooter's violent plan, history
- Tallahassee yoga studio shooting: TPD report reveals gunman planned 'horrific event' for months
- A survivor's story: Daniela Archila recovering after yoga studio shooting
- The math amid the massacre: How Joshua Quick confronted the Tallahassee yoga studio gunman
- 'We have to do better': Tallahassee yoga studio gunman evaded consequences at every turn
Eight of the mass shootings on TIME's cover happened in Florida: two in Tallahassee, three in Jacksonville and one each in Sebring, Miami and Panama City.
"What seemed to me to travel the farthest and speak the loudest were not pictures but numbers," wrote TIME editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal, in an explanation of the cover.
"Numbers that showed how tragically exceptional America is in its gun violence. Numbers making clear that rates of mental illness and video-game consumption in the U.S. are similar to those of countries that don’t experience routine mass murder."
The cover story is an article about America's battle with White Nationalist Terrorism.
The cover was created by artist John Mavroudis and sources its list of mass shootings and their locations from the Gun Violence Archive.
The Gun Violence Archive considers "incidents in which at least four people other than the shooter were injured or killed," according to the TIME explanation of the cover.
"More than 250 mass shootings in the first 220 days of 2019 alone, it’s hard to believe that this doesn’t go without saying," continued Felsenthal.
"Enough."