the weirdest incident in U.S. history?

There are many candidates for the honor, but I’m inclined to vote for AARON BURR MORTALLY WOUNDING ALEXANDER HAMILTON IN A DUEL. Not sure why that incident is on my mind today, but it has been ever since early morning.

Burr was in fact still Vice President at the time (this was before his Alcibiades-like “traitor” phase), and even non-Americans may know that Hamilton is pictured on the $10 bill.

It would be weird enough to imagine Joe Biden going off into the woods this afternoon and killing Robert Rubin with a pistol over an unretracted insult, but even that wouldn’t quite capture the strangeness of it, since neither of these two are of comparable stature in U.S. history to Burr and Hamilton.