This week, the Guardian is exploring the terrible toll of gun violence in the US, and why the gun debate has become a vicious cycle of debate and inaction.
In the 24 hours following the shooting, many wrote about how Americans have become used to these all-too-frequent tragedies and the cycle of debate and blame that will follow.
That, however, has merely prompted yet another cycle of debates and discord.
No events in a presidential campaign are more crucial to public involvement in the electoral process than the cycle of debates involving the major candidates in the fall.
Somehow, I had missed an entire cycle of memefication, "debate," reposting, recrimination, and regret which was, actually, a pretty nice place to be.
With the early Knesset nearly exploding into vicious cycle of procedural debate, some tried valiantly to get it back on track.
The reason for the long life cycle is the subject of debate, but the point of the din is clear: to court and mate and so start the period anew.
To date, however, the role of soil erosion in global C cycle remains a topic of debate.
The timing of the biosynthesis of mtDNA in cells of mammals during progression through the cell-cycle is nowadays a matter of debate.
The involvement of bcl-2 family genes has been confirmed, whereas the place of Fas/Fas ligand system during the first cycles of spermatogenesis remains a matter of debate.
