The Parkland shooting in Florida has everyone up in arms (no pun intended).

Republicans fear that too much gun control will be enacted, and Democrats fear that not enough gun control will be enacted. But both parties are missing the point. Yes, gun control is an issue. Yes, we need stricter background checks and to regulate what kinds of guns are available for purchase. But there is a bigger problem with this shooting that is seemingly unaware of the media and most people: The failure of law enforcement to stop the shooting and arrest the shooter.

Let's start from the beginning. The police had been called to Kruz's house 39 times in a seven-year period prior to the shooting. Brody Speno, a fellow classmate and victim of the shooting, said that the police were called almost weekly to their household for a variety of reasons. The entire school knew him from the beginning as scary and evil. Students speculated that if someone were to shoot up the school, it would probably be him.

We know he had a troubled past and was living in a foster home. Kruz's Instagram consisted of pictures of knives and guns as well.

Then, a man notices that the shooter had actually posted a comment on a YouTube video in September of last year literally stating, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter." This man, obviously alarmed, reports this comment to the FBI. The FBI calls him, asks him some questions, and leaves him be. No further investigation is done in this matter by the FBI. A law enforcement officer even stated that they tried investigating and getting a lead, but no lead was to be found.

Well, I call bullshit.

Kruz's YouTube username for that comment was his actual name. So all it would take would be some Googling to find out some preliminary details of at least where he went to school or some information about where he lived. The fact that the FBI, a government agency that has the power to tap into your phone calls and browse your internet history, cannot get a lead on a comment where the username is literally the shooter's name is hilariously pathetic.

This is some investigating that even I, as an 18-year-old girl, with my "expertise" on Googling, could've done.

It gets worse, folks. In January of this year, an anonymous caller called into the FBI explaining and reporting the shooter's intentions and wishes. This was also ignored, and not investigated. And the FBI did not communicate this with the Miami Field Office either.

And then finally, we get to the day of the shooting. From current news, we now know that four Broward County police officers that were armed and loaded were cowering behind cars for minutes while knowing the shooting was occurring.

So at this point, the FBI had known of this man since September, received an anonymous call in January, and be a suspect of classmates. His social media indicated his intentions clearly, he had a troubled and violent past, and the police had been called to his house several times before.

My question is: why wasn't anything done? Why wasn't anything reported? And if it was reported, why was it improperly handled or communicated? If the FBI had properly investigated this case like we know they would have done for something along the lines of terrorism, this shooting could have been stopped, the shooter arrested, and 17 lives saved.

But instead, we are left with the bodies of 17 innocent people and traumatized citizens.

We can talk about gun control all we want, and I think it's important to. But we are ignoring the real issue here: the failure of law enforcement to do it's duty–protect its citizens. There were several flags raised five months ago, and all of them were ignored. This was a gross error on the part of law enforcement that led to the loss of 17 lives.

For me, yes, this is a gun and a mental health issue, but more than that, it's a law enforcement issue. One that needs to be addressed immediately if we are going to stop school shootings in America.