Howdy, I'm Raskuly, or just Rask! I go by the name Brandon, and I like to edit Wikipedia pages as a hobby. I've really increased my activity on the site as of late, and I've been trying to learn more about Wikipedia. I'm always learning and I will make mistakes, so please approach me politely about anything I've done wrong!
Originally, I mainly contributed to lists, and I still do, but I've shifted to writing proper sections of articles instead. Typically, I write about tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin, crime in the United States, and association football.
If I were to fully dedicate my Wikipedia activity to one topic, it would be gun violence in the United States. While I am fortunate enough to not have been directly impacted by gun violence, I do not believe that is an excuse to look the other way. As a Wikipedian, in order to bring awareness and hopefully lessen the impact of gun violence on Americans, I believe that I can simply write about it and bring light to the frequency and brutality of it all.
I've often read things along the lines of "I never thought it would happen to me" or "I never thought it would happen here" in regard to gun violence, but I will not live, or die, with a false sense of security. I know it is statistically unlikely that it will happen to me, but I would be foolish to pretend that I would think it would be impossible or implausible. I'm working on creating a website dedicated to highlighting all incidents of major gun violence in the United States going back to the nation's founding–though I know it would never be complete because of how often these incidents are forgotten.
I also understand that there are other major issues in the United States, let alone the world, and I have sympathy for those issues as well, but this is what I have chosen to dedicate the majority of my time to on Wikipedia. I am one person and a person can only achieve so much on their own.
