please stop being sarcastic, if you want to offend me feel free to email me and we'll talk there.
Yeah - what Krav said. Most people have said their piece and moved o, but every time someone replies the thread gets brought to the top of the front page. You can close this thread yourself, it will eventually fall off the front page and out of everyone's memory. There should be an option at the bottom or under threat tools.
I would make a public apology and close the thread - and then go and visit the mods profiles involved and speak with them with a visitor message or private message.
Keep in mind too, even though they aren't the ones with a thread questioning their demerits, a lot of kids are on this forum. They're generally well behaved, but aren't as well behaved when a member draws attention to themselves. You have to be 21 to buy a gun, but someone will give you a knife on your birthday when you're 8. They will continue to antagonize you while you're down and they see an opening because they don't know any better. Some adults see 4 or 5 kids doing it, which they assume are their peers, and they give in and take a jab. Lots of great members though - for example Greykilt who is trying to help offered to give a kid he didn't know a $100 knife last month just because he was begging for one. The kid ended up getting a knife from his family and didn't want to meet the criteria for accepting the knife (taking delivery from a retailer in his area that could verify legality and age/ parental consent), but ended up giving the knife away in a giveaway open to all forum members. Others are going to be more direct and stern in their advice, but they did take the time to try and give you an option.
Good luck PG, sorry to see your first impression become such a debacle - I hope it works out for you.
ETA-
"your intuitive response is combative to anyone that you are not happy with. In an earlier post, I though that you would not apologize as it is not in the nature of folks like yourself. This attitude will not serve you well in future interactions." - take heed to that. You just need to think twice and cut once. Being combative works well in a fist fight, but it never does any good in an Internet forum. It's up to you to prove members like Pwrful wrong if you want to stay (he's giving you good advice there). If you don't, you will have a hard way to go on almost any forum.