And the distributor may have $10 in the bank, and the manufacturer in Prague, a multibillion-dollar industry, is making these things, and is making them dangerously, and knowing that an individual in the United States may end up being injured by them, and it is the U.S. distributor that should be left holding the bag? That is even worse as a matter of public policy, I would submit to the gentleman.
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