American presidents have always been prone to be danger, even with today's Secret Service hovering around. There are plenty of disgruntled persons that loiter about with grievances against the country's top executive.  A house painter named Richard Lawrence was a crazy person; he believed he was part of the Bristish Royal Family. But he wasn't; still he had an issue with President Andrew Jackson, who he said to any and all who listened that the President was preventing him from claiming his rightful legacy. On a gray Friday, Jackson attended a funeral at the US Capitol. Lawrence was waiting behind a column of the building, and emerging, shot a loaded pistol at the President. It misfired. He pulled another pistol out and fired. It misfired, too! A Navy officer knocked Lawrence to the ground and he was hauled off to stand trial for attempted murder. The odds of two correctly loaded pistols misfiring was 125,000 to one. Jackson was considered to be an extremely lucky man. Richard Lawrence was prosecuted by Francis Scott Key, author of "the Star Spangled Banner." His trial took only one day, and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent the final 26 years of his life in an asylum, and Jackson lived to a ripe old age. It was the first assassination attempt on a United States President, but luckily, it didn't succeed!