[Non-Sequitur]

If his first love was homicide then he would have practiced it more indiscriminately. He stuck to killing people while fighting his own war on slavery. The whole Kansas-Missouri border was like that prior to the war. For example, on May 19, 1858, 30 pro-slavery men crossed the Kansas border south of the Marais des Cygnes River. They rounded up 11 local free-state men and marched them to a ravine near the Missouri border. There, they opened fire on the unarmed prisoners, killing five and wounding five other. One man escaped being shot by falling to the ground and playing dead. John Brown showed up a few weeks later and began construction of a fort near the ravine. I guess that didn't work out because he headed east after that.

[Aurelius]

"If his first love was homicide then he would have practiced it more indiscriminately. He stuck to killing people while fighting his own war on slavery."

Brown did not discriminate in his choice of victims, he was an equal opportunity killer. Can it be that you actually think that there was anything positive or admirable about that homicidal fanatic?