Labrax, I have noticed that too. You are so right about the atmosphere(no pun intended) around here. It didn't used to be like this. People wouldn't be flaming you or calling the moderators on you for expressing an opinion that differed from consensus. Quite frankly, there has been a lot of degeneration.
He's gone.
That said. It was a lot more welcoming when I joined up a few years ago even. If todays standards had been applied I would have been zotted immediately.
I believe I in some of my first posts stated that I was for gun control, and that I didn't mind Clinton :-)
Staying on here has changed my attitudes though, since I am now looking for a shooting club to join :-)
Still not convinced Clinton was the devil incarnated though.
Hillary on the other hand?
Who knows? :-)