(CNN) Dayton. El Paso. Gilroy. Virginia Beach. Chesapeake.

Some you have heard of, many you have not.

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.

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.

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