Time magazine's latest edition declares "Enough" on its cover, the rest of the front filled with the locations of 253 mass shootings that have taken place so far this year in the U.S.

Inside, the magazine analyzes "how obscenely normalized domestic terror has become" in the wake of two mass shootings last weekend that left 32 dead in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

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The Time piece reports that 253 mass shootings have occurred in 2019, which are defined as when at least four people other than the shooter were wounded or killed.



"We all have our measures of how obscenely normalized domestic terror has become. At TIME, one is how frequently we have felt compelled to devote our cover to the subject. In my own less than two years in this job, we’ve run seven of them, from the 2017 massacre at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 58 people to this spring’s murder of 50 worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand," reads an explanation of the "Enough" cover provided by Time to its readers.

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"We do have a choice as a society. Not a perfect choice. Or a guaranteed solution. But doing nothing in the face of repeated mass murder in our society is indefensible," it concludes. "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.