I've seen a lot of bad laws proposed in California. An alarming number of them pass, too, which is troubling.

I'm not just talking about gun control, either. It happens all the time in just about every topic known to man. If there's a bad idea, it probably came from a lawmaker in California.

So imagine my surprise when it seems that a sensible bill was not just proposed but actually made into law.

This one dealt with mass shooter drills. It seems there are new rules prohibiting something that I don't see why it was a thing in the first place.

While the drills are designed to help prepare students for the danger and chaos of a school shooter, a lack of standardized regulations has led to the drills themselves causing added stress.

A study found students experience a rise in anxiety, stress and depression after school shooting drills are performed.

California hopes to ease students' mental health with Governor Gavin Newsom signing a new state law to bring more regulation to how schools can handle these drills.

The new law bans the use of “high-intensity” drills. High-intensity drills include using performances of victims or shooters, fake blood and the use of weapons or explosives.

"There are ways that we can provide some common sense guidance on how to be able to process this exercise without creating confusion or trauma," said the law's author, Assemblymember Chris Ward.

The California Department of Education will be issuing recommendations, however, Ward said it will ultimately be up to the school districts to decide how to “fine-tune” the new safety rules.

“Sometimes without that guidance, you've had schools, parents or principals (who) have gone a little bit too far,” Ward said.

The report doesn't say how prevalent these "high-intensity" drills are, but even one is probably way too often.

Drills exist to try and make sure people know what to do in the case of some kind of emergency. Growing up, we had tornado drills all the time, so when we had a tornado near the school, we all knew what to do. Yes, it happened, though it didn't actually hit us, thankfully. My point, though, was that the drill taught us what to do so we knew how to handle things should we need to.

Mass killer drills are supposed to do the same.

But for students, the desire to prepare them for the worst needs to be tempered quite a bit, if school districts are going that far. They don't need to be traumatized with realistic blood and gore. That's not necessary for what they need to accomplish during a shooting. There's absolutely no reason to go that far.

For law enforcement? Sure, that makes sense. For armed teachers in states that allow them? Same thing. That makes sense for them. These are adults who are less likely to be scarred for life from a simple drill.

Kids, however, are different.

California banning those is probably the best move they could have made. Yes, it feels weird typing that, but on this one, I'm in agreement with California lawmakers.

Yes, I think I need a shower now.

But then again, I'm going to call it like I see it, and unless something is hiding in the weeds, this is a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut.