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Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Morning news then Luis Valdes from Gunowners of America digs into the DC court of appeals overturning of the magazine bans. How could this affect us in the fight to turn back Measure 114 here?

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Probably top of the fold this morning has to do with what. what's going on with oil and fuel prices around here in southern Oregon. And, you know, it's kind of funny. I mean, I've been hearing about it in the news, and I was getting ready to go buy fuel for Linda's car yesterday because I was driving it. But I was so darn busy with other things. I'm hearing about how spiking and spiking and spiking.

And then, okay, is it really going on? It's funny. I drive past the signs, and I don't really notice it. I don't know why. How could I not notice that during such a time? And then I'm finding out that the average price of a gallon of fuel right now in southern Oregon, this according to the AAA, 438 a gallon, and then in Grants Pass 444, and the real issue, this is the real issue this morning.

And it is diesel, the cost of diesel, because that's the trucking industry, that's the delivery of everything, that's the growing of food. This is a big deal right now. And naturally it's continuing to hinge on the war action. I know that, you know, I had somebody who wrote me last week who was yelling at me saying, Bill, this is not a war. Okay, well, most of the countries in the Middle East think of it as a war. And I know that Israel certainly thinks of it as a war.

And we're with Israel on this one. So I would say that it's a war. Maybe undeclared, you can call it that. But I don't think you can just call it, what, a police action? that sort of thing, right? You're going to try to use that and parse the words? I don't know. It's a war, okay?

Looks like a war, acts like a war, bombs like a war, smells like a war. You know, how can someone, what do you hide within the, do you kind of like cope with patriotism? Is that what we do right now? You know, that sort of thing. And you don't want to talk about what is actually, you know, happening? I don't know. But the question is, though, will getting rid of the theocracy in Iran and getting things calmed down,

do you think it's going to be worth the price right now? Because this is what the administration is claiming, that it is worth it to do this at this point. And are you okay? That would be the one question I would put to you this morning. Are you okay with what the Trump administration is focusing on? And the idea is to get rid of any of the attempts to have a nuclear weapon. And I think it's also about degrading the ability for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.

And the strait is technically not closed, but there's just such a threat of that and so much danger for the oil and other fuels moving through that part of the Gulf, that essentially it stopped it. It just stopped the traffic. Now, I know the United States will escort tankers through, but there's no insurance available for that. And the Trump administration said last week, I don't know if they figured out a way to make this happen or not, but somehow authorizing some form of insurance because no one's going to take a tanker worth a billion or more or hundreds of millions of dollars and take it through a place, which would appear to be a war zone. Okay. Now, or a police action zone. If someone's angry about me calling it a war, I don't know how you do that. But anyway, that's what we're looking at this morning.

And my boss, George, was out on the coast this weekend, and he said that regular in Crescent City was at 555 or 565 somewhere in that neighborhood? Don't remember exactly. But, yeah, serious. And 438 a gallon for regular in Medford, 444 grants past diesel's the real big deal. That's the one to watch here. And this very well could be just a temporary glitch in this. system and if so that's good news. I know last week I was mentioning that I've read analysis people were saying well why aren't the fracking fields opening up why aren't they starting to

frack more fuel because we don't import a lot of fuel here in the United States in fact we are in that exporter we're able to take care of most of our of our energy needs but oil is a worldwide commodity priced in dollars for the time being if we can keep If we could keep this going, all right? But, yeah, that is serious stuff. And the fracking fields, if you wanted to actually increase more of the fracking to make up for Iranian oil not getting into the market right now, that would take several months. In fact, maybe even a year or more to be able to crank that up.

You just don't turn this stuff on like a dime. You've got to hire people. You've got to go out and purchase piping and fluids and sands. and, you know, all sorts of things. It's a very big deal. It's not like the oil is just sitting there and then just waiting for you to turn on the spigot, so to speak. So that's kind of where we find ourselves at this morning.

Now, speaking of Iran, since this is what this is all about, Iran confirms a new leader, son of the old leader. Mottabi or Moshtaba, Khamenei. Pardon me if I, if I tortured him. who knows how long he will be in the office because the Trump administration's been pretty good at taking out all the other people that were trying or appointed. Like, boom, out you go. And Iran's, I love this term.

Iran's Assembly of Experts announcing in a statement over the weekend that Khamenei has been chosen as the country's new supreme leader. Days after Iran International first reported his selection under pressure from Revolutionary Guards. Now, President Trump said the next leader would not last long without U.S. approval. What we don't know is if this would work, right? And so the Iranian revolution comes to power quite frequently during, or due to, rather, I should say, hereditary succession. Let's say it's necessarily smart, but that's the way they do it. But everybody else has been killed so far. So far, this Cominé has not.

I don't know what the Trump administration's push is on this or what their take is on it for the moment. But that's why we are looking at at the moment. And I guess the question I would have for you this morning is that would you care, I think it's a reasonable question. Would you care if the Islamist stayed in control? The reason I asked that question is that another piece that I was reading over the weekend was quite interesting, and it had to do with how every time we kill someone, it's considered a big honor in Iran. It's actually a big deal to be martyred.

Under Islam, under their form of Islam, it's a big deal to be martyred. It's considered a great honor. Now, are we going to bestow this honor on this particular common A? I don't know. And I can't say, you know, at this point. But generally speaking, it has the opposite effect in some ways the way we would look at it. You know, if you had some foreign actor come in and, let's say, God forbid, take out President Trump, it would be considered, we would be considering it an honor if we were thinking the way that these Islamists are over in Toronto. Iran. It's an honor. Well, are we going to bestow the honor to them, I suppose? But it actually encourages the people at home. I know it sounds really weird. At their home, in Iran, it kind of, it stirs the regular folks up to coalesce around their government. And we're kind of hoping that that the people don't coalesce around their government. We've been encouraging them to rise up and

fight and all the rest of it. And according to the analysis that I was reading it, I found it quite fascinating because it was exactly, it was counterintuitive to what I would think. Normally you're thinking, oh, man, man, they killed our president again or they killed our head guy. You know, all that. And that is not necessarily the way that it is taken. It actually encourages them to defend their own government more. Now, I suppose you could say that you kill our president, then we'd be really angry, right? Because we are, you know, you know, and we'd have a right to be angry. Well, they're not only angry,

but they tend to look at it as an honor that Allah took their guy, so to speak. I know it sounds completely weird, from our way of thinking. But that's the way it goes. That's the way it goes. So the question for you this morning, you think that President Trump ought to let this one live?

How about that? There's a question to start this morning off, huh? And how are you holding up when it comes to filling up the gas tank? You think it's only going to be a temporary thing? Oil spiked to 120 bucks a barrel at one point. Settled back down to just a little bit over 100, but that was based on the fact that numerous countries are talking about releasing some of their strategic petroleum reserves to be able to kind of lower the spikes in these oil markets.

So anyway, that's kind of our big international and national story here at this moment, okay? 770563-3-770 K-M-E-D. Should President Trump let this common A stay in, in spite of the fact that yet he's another radical Islamist? He's another hardliner just like daddy. What do you think? 770K-M-E-D. All right, what else do we have going on?

After all that bad news, then, how about this one? Some great news. I just wanted to thank you, everybody that ended up contributing last Friday to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Radiothon. It's Q100.3's Country Cares for Kids Radiothon. What a nice palate cleanser. This is after all the Iran talk, right? You want to know how much was raised? $190,000 contributed by members of here in Southern Oregon.

Just amazing. This is going out and helping research and fight children's cancer. Such generosity. door one time. I think it was Friday morning. I opened the door and there was an elderly lady who brought in and she said, I'd like to make a donation. And I ended up taking her to the back. She whipped out her card. $4,000. That lady ended up donating. Just amazing. Very positive, heartwarming thing and I can't say enough good things. And Marquis broadcast our parent company just thanks you for all of your generosity. It's just a great, great story on Thursday and Friday.

Q100.3 Radiothon. 624 at KMED. Happy to take your calls on the bad news or the good news or anything in between. This is the Bill Meyer show. If we're such a major exporter of oil and we don't really rely on the Omanig oil, why is it affecting us so greatly? Because it is priced worldwide. It's a worldwide market.

It's a fungible commodity. And Iran is an example. example, Iran's only like 3% of global oil production. They used to be able to produce a little bit more. But the world supply is relatively inelastic. It's not like people, you can just turn on the taps and instantly get a lot more of it, Phil. I think that's the answer to your question. I mean, yes, you can get some fields going given a little bit of time, you know you're going to need to, and then you can crank up. Like, we could even get more fracking fields into operation, but you're not going to be able to, you know, you're going to need to, and then you can crank up. Like, we could even get more fracking fields into operation. But you're not going to be able to, to just turn it on a dime. And even two or three percent of the world's oil output going away causes some real problems, some real headaches. And especially, and the other thing I would say, gosh, what was it? There was something else I was looking at there.

Some other things that are also happening with this war. Sources of urea, which is a fertilizer and various other things under tight control because of what's happening in Iran. So what happens there really does affect the rest of the world this way, even though it sounds like a little bit of oil in the grand scheme of things. Does that help? Yeah. Yeah. And I guess we all just have to suck it up for a little while because suffer for the greater good.

That's what we're hoping for, right? Yeah. Yes, sir. All right. Phil, I appreciate the call. Yeah, Iran's only 3% of the world's oil output, okay? But that oil output's coming in a very dicey area of the world, too, the Strait of Hormuz, which, of course, they can control. They've turned it off and on before, you know, and that's a big deal.

Hi, good morning. Good morning, Bill, Tom here. Tom, how are you today? Welcome. Thank you. Yeah, it's a good question. Is the Iran War for the greater good? You know, more than 10 years ago and Trump walked down out of his tower in New York City,

I was kind of more of the mood to dismiss him as, you know, just a want to be or blow hard or whatever. But then he asked the question that I've been asking for decades, which is, what would America look like if we were not expending all our blood and treasure in the United? Middle East. And that got my attention. I was kind of been a Trump supporter, you know. Well, that got a lot of people's attention back at that time. Just the very fact that he would even bring up the question was like something you just didn't do in politics, really. Oh, yeah. And the Bush family was pissed off at him. And so many, basically the, what we call the deep state or New World Order, whatever you want to call it, where seemed to be pretty upset with.

and so forth. And so I had a, that's what got my tension and, and my hopes up. But now here it is, all these years later, Netanyahu has visited Trump something like a half a dozen different times since he became president the second time. And lo and behold, we have, now have a war against Israel's greatest enemy, Iran, apparently. and we're enmeshed in Iran. And are we doing it for the greater good, as Phil talked about, or are we just doing it for Israel and the New World Order and so forth? That's a question I have in mind.

Yeah, I don't think we really know this yet. If this ends up being a quick in and out and relatively just a short-term shock, I would say probably it was for the greater good. it if you want to call it that. But it's kind of an open question right now, isn't it? I certainly agree with that. If it's in and out and so forth, and plus, here's why kind of hold out with a little bit. Maybe there's something that's going on in the background that we don't have access to that information. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't know the full deck of cards that Trump is playing with and why he did what he did. Well, I'll give you my belief.

This is just my belief. It's just a belief, just an opinion. I just understand. But I think that, of course, Netanyahu has wanted to get rid of Iran for a long, long time. That's been one of their number one goals. At the same time, I think where Trump comes into it, I really don't believe it's about the nuclear weapons. Because remember, we were told six, seven months ago, or maybe 10 months ago, that it was destroyed in last year's attacks, right? Remember that President Trump did?

Ended up commensiting at that time. So it never made sense to me that all of a sudden they went from destroyed back in July, and then now it was an imminent threat. To me, that just struck me as BS, and this is what governments do. They lie to the people about the reason for it. I honestly think that this has more to do with Trump wanting to squeeze cheap energy supplies for China right now, because it's almost like a heavy-duty trade operation, in my view. That's what I'm thinking, ultimately.

And so it could be that BB's views on Iran kind of match with Don's view on Iran for a different reason. He's looking at Iran not because of the nukes really, but because of China ultimately. And I'm wondering if that's what we're really dealing with. And then that brings up the question whether China is really that kind of really an honest threat at this point in time. And the whole thing about this war is, can't we have a movement towards peace instead of trying to solve everything on the planet by blowing up each other? What the hell difference does it make if China becomes the supreme, you know, manufacturing plan on the planet? Well, I can tell you, I can answer that answer to a bit because our amazing privilege of the World Reserve currency hinges on keep. them in a bit of a box, I think. I think these are much, much bigger challenges than it may appear

from the surface. I wanted to touch upon that about the world's reserve currency. Can I kind of take a little sideways here? You know, I would be happy to it a little bit later, if you don't mind. I'm just a little short on time at the moment. Okay. All right. All right. Double dip or later. All right. You can double dip later. We'll do that. Hi. Good morning. KM.E.D. Hi. Hello. Good morning, Bill. David, just wanted to weigh in. After 1974, I always wondered why any country, if we tell them that we'll back you up and go for your freedom, why they'd believe us. We just a couple of months ago promised these Iranians that if they rose up, we'd back them up. And they did, and about 40,000 of them lost their lives. And if we just leave this maniac in there and they go back, even the women's, uh, soccer team in Australia, do they go home or do they seek asylum and what's going to happen to their families? I just don't see how anybody would ever trust the United States again. So we encourage people to rise up and then we say, we got your back and then they get a maniac in there

that's even worse. And we say, okay, we did our part. All right. Well, should, if you were in charge of the White House policy right now, would you want this? Would you want, um, Homonee out. In other words, should Trump take this one out, then? Because that's the question. Absolutely no question about it. Okay. Thank you.

What I was looking for. Thank you very much for the call. And I'll take one more before we break for news. Then we'll shift gears for a little bit. Hi, who's this? Morning. Morning, Bill. Steve in Sunny Valley.

Hi, Steve. You got to go back before 1974. Let's go back to 1952 in Operation Ajax, where the CIA got rid of a democratically elected president. Well, yeah, it's a little bit more. It was not just a CIA operation.

It was Kermit Roosevelt. And people will tell me that they don't know if they believe everything about that, but that was a joint either MI5 or MI6 operation with the CIA. But we did meddle and we imposed the Shaw and everything as a result of that. People got mad at us for getting rid of their own. elected premier and opposing the Shah. So how would you, Terry, knowing this, what you know then, how would you be treating it right now? Well, the thing is, is we have not been at war with Iran, but they've been at war with us, even if we didn't admit it, and they were fighting a war of,

you know, unequal power. So they did it by funding terrorists. We call them terrorists. They call them. Soldiers of Allah, I guess. Soldiers of Allah, exactly. But I want to change the subject. Real quick, Hanel on the law's got to go. He started his show with a rant on not funding Planned Parenthood in California.

You're done with him, huh? I'm done with him. I am done with him. He comes on. I changed the channel. All right. Appreciate the call. Thanks for letting me know, okay? All right. All right. 636 at KMED, 993 KBXG. Some good news in the gun world, not just from the Oregon State Legislature, what happened in the D.C. Court of Appeals. Big deal. I'll be talking with the folks

from gun owners of America about that next. Explan pricing for everyone at Butler Ford. So what is X plan? It's better than friends and family pricing. It's X. Trust savings for you. $3 million worth of coverage. I am grateful. We were prepared. Get your free quote at ethos.com slash term. That's ethos. dot com slash term. This is News Talk 1063, KMED, and you're waking up with the Bill Myers-show. Some actual good Second Amendment news here, and I wanted to bring on Luis Valdez, who is one of the national spokespeople for gun owners of American, gun owners.org, gun owners of America.

Louise, I appreciate having you on. Morning, sir. Morning, my brother, from another mother. How is it going on the other end of the country? Well, we're out in Oregon, and Oregon is not the best when it comes to attacks on the Second Amendment these days. But we had, I just wanted to kind of update with you on a bill which ended up passing in our short legislative session. It was House Bill 4155, which ended up getting gutted and stuffed, and it actually ends up delaying Measure 114. I don't know if you've kept track of that ridiculous bill, which would essentially represent. require us to have permits to purchase and we get rid of all of the high capacity,

what we consider just standard capacity magazines in our firearms. But it delays it until 2028. So my brother, we get a chance to fight another day. We get a couple of years to get some more powder, so to speak, and make that moving forward. So that's what's happening here. I don't know if you kept track of that. But what I wanted to talk about was this case in D.C., and I'm wondering if it would affect us here in Oregon.

Could you explain what happened in the D.C. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia? Big deal. Well, it's a major deal. What happened is, first and foremost, the D.C. Court of Appeals is the D.C.'s version of the state Supreme Court. So it was – it's the highest-level court on their local circuit, since D.C. is a federal district, you know, they're separate from the states. This is their version of the state Supreme Court, and it struck down the DC Magazine ban. It said that it's completely unconstitutional. It goes against the text history and tradition of the Second Amendment, that there's no way that such a ban can be upheld.

The next step, of course, is the federal court circuit, which the D.C. government will probably appeal it to there. but if they don't, this is monumental because D.C., this will be the first time that you might have a court ruling that has struck down a magazine ban, and it stays, that, you know, it hasn't been appealed, it hasn't been challenged, and it hasn't moved anywhere forward. So this is beneficial for Oregon. This is beneficial for Oregon, California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, you name it. I mean, this is a monumental. win in the courts. And GLA will be keeping track on this, depending on if this is appealed to the federal court system. And if it does, we believe that with this ruling, and if it goes further, that, you know, the magazine bans will be struck down because one of the key things

that has been happening is you have had a lot of the states that have magazine bans, they've appealed it to higher courts. And all of those courts have upheld it because they're anti-gun circuits for the most part. You know, it's the judges out of New York are mostly anti-gun. And well, yeah, but the other thing about this, so they're anti-gun, but yet all of this seems to go against the Bruin decision talking about the Second Amendment being a, you know, a fundamental right, an individual right, including the fact that arms which are in common use. And there are millions of these of these magazines everywhere you go. That's all you buy, right?

Yeah, yeah. And what makes this very important is basically you can have what the Supreme Court hates is a circuit court split. Now if you have two different circuits, two different courts giving two different opinions, one saying, hey, yeah, magazine bands are cool. And the other thing, nope, magazine bands are not cool. the Supreme Court really doesn't like that, and they won't keep dodging the issue. They will take it up. And that's the major importance of this.

Finally, we're on a path forward in the judicial system to get an affirmative response on this, to where the can cannot be kicked down the road any further. Boy, that would be great. This benefit, yeah, this benefits gun owners in Oregon, Washington, California, you know, all across the country. So that means even though we had a good bill that at least delayed the implementation of Measure 114 if it were to be approved as constitutional by the courts. That's a court battle we're still waiting to hear what will end up happening on this. This case in the D.C. Court of Appeals, though, adds fuel to the fire for the Supremes actually finally getting into this and saying, hey, listen, you know, these higher capacity magazines are valid under the second. Amendment. That's the bottom line, right? It's setting up this conflict then between states like

Oregon and what happened in D.C., right? Exactly. Exactly. Because if you remember, you know, you had a federal judge back in July of 2023 rule that Measure 114 did not violate the Second Amendment. So the fact that you now have the D.C. Court of Appeals against their version of the state Supreme Court saying, No, this does violate the Second Amendment, but since they are part of the D.C. system, their appeals go directly to the federal court system. So having this in the D.C. circuit is actually a good thing, is what you're saying. Right, Lewis? Yes. Yes. Yes. Since D.C. is a federal enclave. They're their own specific system. and things go, it's a much quicker path into the U.S. Supreme Court versus states directly challenging this.

And the fact that, look, D.C., the heart of the federal government said, yeah, this is not good. That carries a lot of weight. Well, I'm glad to hear this because I saw that happen on Thursday, and I was reading a little bit from the statement here, from the decision. magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition are ubiquitous in our country, numbering in the hundreds of millions, accounting for half of the magazines in the hands. How could you go out there and say half of the magazines that are actually in possession are all of a sudden just gone and illegal, right? It's just insane.

But that's what Oregon's been trying to do, and it's what other states have been trying to do out here on the left coast, too. Yeah, it dramatically is insane. And even going beyond the simple thing of the Second Amendment and firearms, look, we're talking about property here. We're talking about people's livelihoods. Every time a person buys an item, they have worked hard to raise those funds to purchase that item. And this is literally basically the government's stealing time away from someone's life, because someone devoted a portion of their life to generate money to go purchase that item. And that's what it is. It's tangible. And when government steals that, that is wrong on so many levels. I mean, this is no different than the government coming in and saying, well, the house you own is now illegal.

We're going to take that from you. Or the car you own is now illegal. We're going to take that from you. Or let's go stuff. The Bible you own is illegal. We're going to take that from you. Now, don't give them any ideas in Oregon. They'd probably like to do that, too, Lewis. Okay? That's what to be clear. This is a very, very odd state to be living in right now. But I'm glad to hear that this D.C. case may end up bolstering the case for the Second Amendment here, ultimately, in the state of Oregon.

And I'm hoping that ends up being the case. Now, we have the federal case. We still don't know what's going to happen with Measure 114. This is being ground down through the circuit. We had a circuit judge who ended up saying that Measure 114 did violate and was unconstitutional. But needless to say, we're having to fight the state of Oregon with our own money because the state of Oregon, of course, you know, has all the lawyers that they want and they can appeal it to a higher court, and then we have to fight them that they take our money too.

So it's an interesting way that the gun law works. Yeah, 114, the challenge with 114 was the fact that a federal, appeals court said it was constitutional, but then a state of appeals court said, no, it's not constitutional. So it's just, the next decision for that is going to be the Oregon State Supreme Court, of course. And that's what we're waiting to find out. But then even if it were approved, it wouldn't go into effect until 2028. So that's good. It buys us some time. And then maybe this DC gun ban, or the magazine ban, being overturned, along with other ones in conflict, that kind of zooms it right up to the Supreme Court docket right away, right?

Anytime you have the conflict. That's our bottom line here. Okay. Yep. And the other importance here, too, is if the D.C. ban is ruled unconstitutional on the federal level in court. Just like how Heller led to the McDonald decision, you're going to have a, you know, due to the 14th Amendment, now that's going to have to have to be in court. into states' rights. So if the D.C. ban is upheld as unconstitutional in its finality of going through the federal court system, then you will have the same, you will have the legal

challenge to go after every state that has a magazine ban because it'll be like, hey, look, on the federal level, it's unconstitutional. And the Supremacy Clause in the 14th Amendment through incorporation says, yep, this is wrong. Yeah. Hmm. Do you think in our lifetime, Lewis, Louis Valdez ride, by the way, once again, national spokesperson for gun owners of America. You're the Florida State Director, by the way, too. I wanted to give you some kudos there.

Do you think in our lifetime we will finally get to the point where the Second Amendment is looked at the same way as all of our other rights instead of the only one that can just be smacked down at will by your local, by local or a state or federal government, and then, you know, it'll actually just be considered right up there with the freedom of speech and all the other rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. You think it'll finally happen? I very much think so, and that's my career goal. My goal is to literally work myself out of a job. You know, it comes down to this.

Look, if you spoke to me 30 years ago as a gun owner and said, hey, the Clinton assault weapons ban would have been overturned. We would have had multiple Supreme Court cases upholding the Second Amendment. We would have over half the country now is a constitutional carry state. We have a majority of justices in the U.S. Supreme Court that, for the most part, have ruled pro-gun. I would have thought it was crazy. But look at where we are today. Yes. Some states are still fighting and trying to be the draconian gun control states that existed back in the 9.000.

these, but those states are actually shrinking, and every day the grip gets, the news gets tighter and tighter around those states next in terms of gun control. And eventually, we will have a Second Amendment right across the country that is unified and equally respected, because that's what GOA is all about. That's what gun owners are all about. That's what our national motto is all about. Our national motto says it best, e-plervis and them out of many one. And gun owners across the country are fighting this fight. So it's not just Oregon, you know, folks in Oregon or folks in California. It's gun owners everywhere pitching it and fighting this good fight. Lewis. I truly believe that we will win. I'm glad to hear that. I hope you're right from your

lips here, Lewis. How much does it cost to join? It's just $25 a year and every penny goes towards the fight and look. I can tell you this. I spend more than $25 going to a Burger King drive-thru for myself, my wife and my kids. So we, every penny going to force the fight. You got that right. I'm going to go, I'm going to go re-up. I let my membership lapse, and I'm a bad boy. I'm going to get that, I'm going to change that this morning, okay? Thank you so much. Always a pleasure, and thank you for being a shining beacon of liberty on the airwaves. Working our best out here. Lewis, thanks so much. Lewis Valdez is one of the national spokespeople for Gun owners of America. It's really simple. Gutowners.org.org.comuners.org.org.

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Mark Johnson was writing me this morning about the deer behavior at Black Bear Lodge on the Rogue River, the Wild, and the scenic. And I guess this has to do also with the deer we have around here. He says, Bill, every time a cougar is in the Black Bear Lodge neighborhood, the deer all come down around the cabins. and when the cats leave, the deer go back on the mountain up towards Missouri Basin and the county line road on the BLM, you know, out where the Kim's died. The Ashland Watershed hosts a couple of mated sets of cats. When they get hungry, they come into town. From Maple Dell, oh, both the Colstein and the Applegate side, we have counted six adult wolves. The deer go where it's safe, which is in town.

An adult cat will kill a fawn a week. the wolf will kill any time and anywhere. Sometimes just for cause, it's what Lobo does. But if you want to fix your deer population problem long term, you need to manage the predator threat to the deer in the Ashland watershed. With the wolf, you need to manage the predator threat beyond the Ashland watershed. And he continues the usual methods. Hound hunters, poison, trap, and snare them.

Not pleasant for the Ashland demographic. I don't think that they will find that politically. correct. Now that leaves you with the option of trapping and transporting the offending town deer to a place where the cats and the wolf will kill them out of sight of the city population. Pretty simple decision on what the city of Ashland can do. That will solve the problem and also keep the peace. You're right about that, Mark. Yeah, they're fine with the deer being killed by the predators as long as it's being done out of sight. I'll give you that. I will still remember the old mayor of Ashland, the late mayor of Ashland,

who got that email. Remember they were doing the Deer Summit? Shoot the deer! You pansies? I always remember that letter that was sent to him. All right. Dennis writes me, there's a lot of controversy over the weekend

with tickets for Bruce Springsteen's latest concert tour. Remember, he's the man of the people out there going for several thousand dollars. And he wrote me this morning. He says, I always respected Bruce Springsteen, but I never regarded him as a great musician. Well, he's got some great lyrics and stories to iconic acclaim. To me, politically, he's a moron. The shining head of special ed.

That made me laugh when I'm reading this. But also, he says, I've never heard anyone in his band or hired hands play any hot licks. No great leads just trudging along. Strummers. Recently, I got an invitation to go see him, and I thought about it. but with his political stands, I don't care to be in that crowd. Kind of like going to a Hillbilly Horseshoe tournament in Alabama in the summer with my Yankees cap on. Why would I do that?

Lower consciousness people are danger. Better to steer clear. Dennis, I appreciate your writing. Email Bill at Billmyershow.com. KMED and KMED HD-1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG grants pass. I will disagree with you slightly, Dennis. I actually think that the boss has been very talented. and unfortunately, like many people, like many liberals who were talented,

they did their best work in Bruce's case 40, 50 years ago. It's kind of like Elton John, too. Elton John, an amazing talent, but the best work was still. Goodbye Yellowback Road, 1973. And then when you have years and years of people going out there and telling you how great you are, you start thinking that your political acumen is great too. I think that's what happens. It comes with the terrorist.

Okay. All right. Fox News coming up here in just a minute. We got the hand of the update, too, for that matter. Mr. Outdoors is going to join me with this morning's Monday edition of the Outdoor Report. I think this may be one of the last Monday ones. We'll find out. This month at Kelly's Atomoto Service, when you have our platinum fuel system cleaning.