 He began by saying, Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a bull moose. I thought of that story when I learned Saturday that Donald Trump had narrowly escaped an assassin's bullet and saw him insist on presenting himself to the crowd, punching the air with his fist and urging his followers to continue to fight before he went to the hospital.