cjwilt

Thin mints are great when you crunch them up and sprinkle over mint chocolate chip ice cream.

To add to what PC said, I will say you will need to learn to fly with canopy traffic also. This IMO is equally as important. If you are still a student, you probably don’t have to focus on this while landing yet which is a good thing as you need to focus on landing safely. When you get licensed and jump with 20 plus canopies flying around trying to land in the same area, things change. Some folks are flying much faster and others much slower. Safely getting into the pattern is crucial to avoid a canopy collision or a low altitude mistake. Take this into consideration as you decide what is best for you and the others you will be flying with. Watching and talking to more experienced jumpers will be a great benefit. BTW, what is your exit weight? That will help determine a safe canopy size.

Have you checked around for some high quality velcro? You could have a rigger help with changing it out with something better. My 2 cents.

What lie are you talking about??? It's been well known for a long time now. https://realclimatescience.com/2016/08/collusion-between-mann-hansen-and-schmidt-to-create-the-hockey-stick/ https://principia-scientific.org/should-michael-hockey-stick-mann-be-prosecuted-for-climate-fraud/

If you call altering data a denier, then yes. I'd prefer to have all the data shown and code shared. You wouldn't?

James Hanson along with Michael Mann and other experts coincidentally left out the medieval warm period in their studies. Michael Mann is still fighting to keep his code a secret that creates the hockey stick.

This is a pretty long article for anyone who cares to take the time. https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-inside-story-behind-the-alleged-plot-to-take-down-trump_2833074.html

I don’t know of any accurate information that includes every gun owner who died in violent attacks. Violent attacks could be stabbings, blunt force trauma, people running down pedestrians – the list goes on and on. How does someone go back and say these are the folks killed in acts of violence who owned firearms and these ones did not? The data doesn’t exist unless you know something I don’t. If it did exist the numbers from the studies posted above would be much greater making guns look worse, even if they had nothing to do with the crime. There is accurate data from the FBI that funnels down to sex and race regarding shootings. This is quantifiable data.

Skydekker posted this... You agree with it, I don't. Had he said, The fact that carrying a gun increases your risk of being killed in an act of violence, I wouldn't question it. Happy shooting, stay safe on the range.

I did read your article which started out with many laughs. And your original statement I questioned is nothing but a lie where you stated ownership, not access. I own firearms, so now I'm likely to be attacked by violence. OK. How would anyone know I own firearms unless I told them?

And no one has posted anything that has anything to do relating gun ownership to being violently attacked. Which is what I originally questioned.

I'm not a pompous and over confident personality, I can assure you I take great strides in both gun safety and skydiving. Not to say it can't happen to me as I'm a realist but I do have the attitude that I can learn from anyone. Even those who think differently than I. I too have lost a number of friends over the years do to skydiving accidents but I have never lost one to a gun. Knock on wood, I hope I never do.

My apologies. I did edit my post shortly after submitting it as I realized I was thinking back upon other discussions. And I do agree about know it all folks who can't learn anything. They are the scary ones who I stay clear of. The purpose of my original post was the misinformation being fed to folks.

Yep, my fault. Edited above.

Owning a gun and carrying a gun are two totally different situations. If you are going to spout stats, please use the correct terminology. Edit - I see you are referring to the mentally ill/suicide cases and irresponsible owners. My fault.

Which is why I stated farther back in this thread that I support harsher mandatory minimums for people breaking the current laws we already have. Murderers do less time in jail verses drug dealers.

Most of the properly trained owners will do fine. My friend who lives under strict gun laws in Belgium is required by law to practice every 2 or 3 months. Not such a bad gun law IMO.

No, I wasn't directing it at you. The previous poster. And no, I'm not more likely to die of gun violence simply because I own a gun. I've owned guns since before I was a teen and some how I've managed to live all these years peacefully owning guns without any violence. I guess I'm the one lucky person who is in this position. Reading through many of the links posted above clearly displays that a lot of the stats come from mentally ill gun owners and complete morons who don't know the first thing about gun safety.

Then quit repeating this lie.

Thanks another link that doesn't say anything about how I'm going to be violently attacked because I'm a gun owner.

No I didn't. Skydekker said owning a gun increases your risk of being killed in a violent attack. The article you referenced discusses a study regarding people carrying guns, not owning. There's a big difference between the two. From your article.

I do see the problem which is why I asked. Where do people get this information that owning a firearm increases your risk of being killed in a violent attack? I would like to know.

Care to elaborate? You believe that simply owning a firearm increases you risk in being killed in an act of violence?

From 1982 till 2010 there was a handgun ban put into place. During that time there were around 18,000 homicides. From 2011 to 2019 just over 4000. So tell me, how did that ban work out?

Here’s a big part of the problem. Throw whatever you can at the wall and see what sticks. Common sense is not that common any more. Too many people walk around in their bubble of what’s been programmed into their head without any ability to think analytically through problems. Unfortunately this is what is common these days. BTW – Thanks for the links above.