Viewfinder: Orlando Marks the Second Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting - Pacific Standard

Viewfinder: Orlando Marks the Second Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Jun 13, 2018

People dressed as angels stand in front of the memorial set up for the shooting victims at Pulse nightclub on June 12th, 2018, where the shootings took place two years ago in Orlando, Florida. — People dressed as angels stand in front of the memorial set up for the shooting victims at Pulse nightclub on June 12th, 2018, where the shootings took place two years ago in Orlando, Florida.
(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The coffin of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, is carried during her funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20th, 2018. Sheikh was an exchange student from Pakistan.

The coffin of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, is carried during her funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20th, 2018.

Ashley Schuck of Nevada places a medal from Saturday's Vegas Strong 5k on a cross set up for shooting victim Neysa Tonks on October 1st, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Retired carpenter Greg Zanis, who installed 58 crosses last year—one for each person killed—set up the memorial again with new crosses for the massacre's anniversary. On October 1st, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800 in the deadliest mass shooting event in modern United States history.

Retired carpenter Greg Zanis, who installed 58 crosses last year—one for each person killed—set up the memorial again with new crosses for the massacre's anniversary.

Police respond to a shooting on June 28th, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland. At least five people were killed Thursday when a gunman opened fire inside the offices of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper published in Annapolis, a historic city an hour east of Washington. A reporter for the daily, Phil Davis, tweeted that a "gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload."

Police respond to a shooting on June 28th, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland.

People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting on February 14th, 2018, in Parkland, Florida.

The U.S. is stuck in a vicious cycle, not just of bloodshed, but also of helplessness.

Mark Searles waits for the arrival of President Donald Trump at his Make America Great Again Rally at the Florida State Fair Grounds Expo Hall on July 31st, 2018, in Tampa, Florida.

Attendees wait at the Florida State Fair Grounds Expo Hall for President Donald Trump.