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If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

John Dingell

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John Dingell
Age: 92 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 8
Died: 2019
Died: February 7
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