Larry W wrote:
I feel that this would be an appropriate point in the discussion to
point out that we had a republican vice president who actually DID
shoot someone, he also was not tried or convicted of any crime.

You're wrong. The Vice President was indicted in both New York and New
Jersey. In one jurisdiction, the trial resulted in an acquittal, in the
other the charge was dismissed.

Didn't matter, though. Alexander Hamilton was still dead. And Aaron Burr was
both a Democrat and a Republican.