クラクラは商社勤務ですが、まず教えられることは「ピンチはチャンス」にすべきということ。

転んでもタダでは起きない。

だから、商社業界では、靴を売りに行って、100人の靴を履かない未開人の村があったら、「靴を履く習慣がないので売れません」ではなくて「100人の新しい需要があります！」と歓喜するのが正しいわけです。

今、世界で最も商魂たくましいのは、NRA(全米ライフル協会)でしょうね。

銃規制に協力するどころか、まさか、学校も武装しようと言い出すとは夢にも思いませんでしたよ。
それでまた稼ぎが増えるわけですね。

N.R.A. Envisions ‘a Good Guy With a Gun’ in Every School

December 21, 2012 The New York Times

WASHINGTON — After a weeklong silence, the National Rifle Association
announced Friday that it wants to arm security officers at every school in the
country. It pointed the finger at violent video games, the news media and lax
law enforcement — not guns — as culprits in the recent rash of mass shootings.

*culprit/kˈʌlprɪt/犯人，犯罪者

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,”
Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A. vice president, said at a media event that was
interrupted by protesters. One held up a banner saying, “N.R.A. Killing Our Kids.”

The N.R.A.’s plan for countering school shootings, coming a week after the
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was met with
widespread derision from school administrators, law enforcement officials and
politicians, with some critics calling it “delusional” and “paranoid.”

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Republican, said arming schools would not
make them safer.

Even conservative politicians who had voiced support this week for arming more

school officers did not rush to embrace the N.R.A.’s plan.

Their reluctance was an indication of just how toxic the gun debate has become
after the Connecticut shootings, as gun control advocates push for tougher
restrictions.

Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools —
already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the
2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use
them have begun discussing the idea in recent days.

Even so, the N. R. A’s focus on armed guards as its prime solution to school
shootings — and the group’s offer to help develop and carry out such a program
nationwide — rankled a number of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

＊rankle/rˈæŋkl/〈恨みなどが〉〔人の〕心に食い込む〔with〕.　What he said still rankles with me. 彼が言ったことがまだ私の心にわだかまっている.

“Anyone who thought the N.R.A. was going to come out today and make a
common-sense statement about meaningful reform and safety was kidding
themselves,” said Representative Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, who has
called for new restrictions on assault rifles.

Mr. LaPierre struck a defiant tone on Friday, making clear that his group was
not eager to reach a conciliation. With the N.R.A. not making any statements
after last week’s shootings, both supporters and opponents of greater gun
control had been looking to its announcement Friday as a sign of how the
nation’s most influential gun lobby group would respond and whether it would
pledge to work with President Obama and Congress in developing new gun
control measures.

*defiant　/dɪfάɪənt/　反抗的な, けんか腰の, 傲慢(ごうまん)な

Mr. LaPierre offered no support for any of the proposals made in the last week,
like banning assault rifles or limiting high-capacity ammunition, and N.R.A.
leaders declined to answer questions. As reporters shouted out to Mr. LaPierre
and David Keene, the group’s president, asking whether they planned to work
with Mr. Obama, the men walked off stage without answering.

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