On Feb. 5, around 1:15 p.m., students at the University of South Carolina (USC) received a text message warning “SHOTS FIRED” -- two words which would send chills and panic through the large campus that is home to nearly 32,000 students. For a few hours, we all believed USC had become the latest face of campus shootings. Instead, we soon would learn, USC had become the latest site of an epidemic which usually spreads in obscurity, but is all too familiar in South Carolina: domestic violence.