Because things in Florida aren’t already tense and turbulent enough, the state’s House just passed a measure that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 for those seeking to buy rifles and other “long” guns.”

This would reverse a measure passed in 2018 after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which led to 17 students and faculty members being killed, and 17 more injured.

As House members debated the plan, bill sponsor Bobby Payne, from a middle-of-nowhere town known as Palatka, said that the new measure “corrects the wrong we did in 2018.” In extraordinarily black-and-white thinking, Payne told House members, “You see the gun as the problem. I see the interventions and the policies as the answer.”

Democrats fought the measure, with State Representative Christine Hunschofsky (who was mayor of Parkland when the massacre occurred), pled with colleagues to keep the age restriction in place. “This law has stood the test of time because we have not had another school shooting in the state of Florida, and I hope to God we never do so that children will no longer hide, hit the ground, when a balloon pops.” She added, “We are going down the wrong path here.”

It’s unclear what future the bill faces in the Senate and on the desk of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis if it makes it that far.