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After 17 people were killed at the Parkland, Florida, school, Vullo called on banks and insurance companies operating in New York to discontinue their association with gun-promoting groups.
In letters to companies and news releases, she urged operators to consider “reputational risks” from doing business with the NRA and other gun groups.
The NRA sued Vullo after multiple entities cut ties or decided not to do business with the Fairfax, Virginia-based organization. The federal appeals court in New York rejected the NRA’s claims, saying Vullo acted in good faith and within the bounds of her job.
But the ACLU, in additional comments posted on X, argued that if the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, it could create a “dangerous playbook” for regulatory agencies across the country to blacklist or punish “viewpoint-based organizations” including abortion rights groups, environmental groups and even the ACLU itself.
The section of the organ responsible for controlling how people respond is said to be switched off by defeat, which increases the likelihood of a person acting in irrational and aggressive ways. Losing, it seems, is a trigger for a mental mechanism that leads to explosive tendencies in the most hardcore fans. In more moderate followers, however, the response to a loss is less violent and more introspective.
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The findings explain the extreme attachment people have with their sports team and the subsequent hooliganism and tribalism that these emotional investments can create.