Time's cover lists 253 US cities that have seen a mass shooting this year
There are 253 US cities listed on Time magazine's latest cover, each one has experienced a mass shooting this year. Those are just a handful of the 253 US cities listed on Time magazine's latest cover, which hits newsstands on Friday. What all of those cities have in common: Each experienced a mass shooting this year. "At a certain point, I started stepping back and thinking about the actual cities that I'm writing," Mavroudis said. "If you start looking a little closer at the details, you realize that every single one of these names represents actual incidents," Mavroudis said.