In 1856, Brown, his sons and followers carried out the Pottawatomie massacre. His gang of radical abolitionists dragged five Kansas settlers, three of whom were pro-slavery sympathizers, out of their homes and executed them. Brown was later captured after his raid on Harpers Ferry by Federal troops including Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart. John Brown was hanged, and his body lies a’moldering in the grave. Good. Abraham Lincoln denounced Brown as an insane zealot, and Frederick Douglas, while honoring Brown’s goals, condemned his methods.
Turley writes, in one of his under-stated professorial moods, aka.”like a weenie”:
“As many celebrate or rationalize the assassinations of figures such as Charlie Kirk and UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the effort to encourage others to embrace the legacy of John Brown is hardly a subtle message. Many will take it as another signal that violence is not just warranted but righteous.”
Ya think? They’ve already tried to kill the President three times.
Ethics Alarms 
Was not John Brown’s acts done in retaliation for the Siege of Lawrence?
Ironically for those insisting on calling the Jan. 6 riot an “insurrection”, Brown was an actual insurrectionist who intended to seize control of US states and plotted with foreign agents to do so.
There are statues and monuments to Brown in several US cities.