There has been an abundance of thoughtful ideas posted here and good dialogue over this emotionally charged subject.

There has also been a level of "attack" type posting criticizing someone's opinion or perspective and that adds nothing to the discussion.

As another poster pointed out, nothing said on these forums is going to change a person who is pro-gun into anti-gun and vice versa. Thankfully we live in a nation where opinions are freely accepted and encouraged.

To the original poster kamikazejane; while I dislike generalizations I have found the following to be the norm in this environment - many comments that express a liberal point of view are passed on without comment (which is really how it should be, a persons POV is just that) - many comments that express a conservative point of view are debated or challenged, sometimes hotly.

I come here for cycling information, comraderie and try to ensure that for the most part my contributions don't contain something that can be construed as offensive, instead I try to offer helpful advice or tips when I am able to. I'm sure that you didn't intend for your comment to cause a ruckus, but it has. Lesson learned, I speak from experience with having made what I considered to be a small offhand personal opinion that stirred up quite a hornet's nest at the time.

Not sure how the weather is in the rest of the world today, but today is a GREAT day to live in South East Michigan, we are having one perfectly gorgeous day!