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On Monday morning, Americans woke up to news that scores of people had been slaughtered in Las Vegas, and hundreds more were wounded in the worst mass shooting in American history.

The carnage caused by one gunman is almost unfathomable. In the aftermath of the shooting, first responders were simply overwhelmed by the number of injured, and that’s when ordinary Americans stepped up to the plate, Tribunist reported.

Many people who attended the country music concert had pickup trucks, and soon those trucks were being loaded with injured people and driven straight to local hospitals where they could be treated for their injures.

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Video from the scene showed people being loaded into trucks. You can watch one video here. (WARNING: Images may be disturbing.)

With a crowd of 22,000 and over 500 injured, there are simply no plans that can work perfectly. All the first-responder training in the world can’t prepare you for something like that.

Luckily, there were ordinary citizens who were willing to step up and help transport the wounded to hospitals. And thanks to the fact that it was a country western concert, the kind of event  that drew more pickup truck owners in its audience than many other kinds of entertainment, it’s a good bet that many made it to a hospital for treatment who otherwise might not have.

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The level of death and injury is unlike anything this country has ever seen from a mass shooting. There are simply no words to describe the horrors that occurred on that fateful night.

However in the midst of all that pain and suffering, there were good people who stepped up to the plate, and helped out however they could and tried to save as many lives as possible.

From the people who shielded others from bullets with their own bodies, to the thousands of people who donated online to help out those injured, Americans came together after the shooting to help out in any way possible.

This shooting showed us the worst of humanity, but it showed us the best of what this nation has to offer. Going forward we need to remember that there is still more good than bad in this country — even after something as evil and horrific as this massacre.

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