When a tragedy strikes, the unfortunate truth is that it can often put us too close to humanity's worst impulses for comfort.
This goes double for situations that only occur because one or more people decided to embrace those impulses and inflict suffering on a crowd of people who only wanted to go about their lives. This was precisely what unfolded one fateful day at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
However, footage released soon after the incident also shows that the ideals we hope we can still attribute to the human spirit can still emerge even in the most dire of circumstances.
One person proved that with his courageous deeds, but it remains unclear as to who exactly this person is.