Per Think Progress:
The Republican-led Iowa state House is considering a bill that would allow Iowans to carry a weapon openly or concealed in public without a license, permission from a sheriff, background check, or any training. The bill is known as “Alaska carry,” or the “Alaska bill,” because Alaska was one of the first states in the country to implement it. Arizona and Wyoming have similar laws.
The problem? Aside from this being completely, over the top and insane, the Iowa Republicans know it's insane.
Witness as the Speaker of the Iowa House refers to it as "The crazy, give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic bill:"
But really, this is what happens when you treat the 2nd amendment as a religion, as opposed to dealing with it as an integral element of the Bill of Rights that needs to be understood and interpreted. I have no objection to the right to people to own weapons, but I have a problem with them being able to own high-powered weapons in secret and I have a problem with them being able to do so without any sort of background check. It's a recipe for danger that has no real basis in the constitution.
In other news, blogs are scary.