When news of an active shooter inside an elementary school broke on Monday morning, it triggered panic and alarm. For residents of San Bernardino, California, a community still reeling from the trauma of a terrorist attack that killed 14 people less than two years ago, it was as though a fresh wound had been ripped wide open.

But as the details of the shooting emerged, it became clear that what took place inside that classroom was driven by domestic violence, not ideology. The story police told was as American as apple pie: A rage-filled man taking his wifes life.

The incident, however sad, would not inspire President Donald Trump to address the nation. It would not create pressure for politicians to act. It would not even start a conversation about the role of domestic abuse as a major driver of gun violence in the U.S. As HuffPosts Michael Calderone documented , the story was already receding from the headlines by Tuesday morning. The country had moved on.

On Monday, Karen Elaine Smith was doing what she loved best teaching students with intellectual disabilities when her estranged husband walked into her classroom armed with a .357 handgun, police say.

Cedric Anderson didnt say a word. He just shot everywhere before reloading and killing himself, a child who witnessed the scene told the Los Angeles Times. Smith died. Two of her students were hit by errant bullets. One, 8-year-old Jonathan Martinez, died later that day.

An 8-year-old and his teacher were dead. But the public breathed a sigh of relief: At least the shooting was not an act of terrorism.

That reaction or lack of one is misguided. The latest San Bernardino shooting was also an act of terror a much more common kind, with a much higher death toll: The kind women face when trapped in abusive relationships.