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People sometimes say that they will kill any snake they see because the only good snake is a dead snake. I tell them that you have to get closer to kill a snake than you do to just identify one. Their response is, "Well, I'll shoot it from a distance." Obviously, this is an uneducated person or a just plain dumb one! Let's examine this situation intelligently. Assuming you have a gun with you, hopefully, while you're aiming, you won't stumble and fall because there are over 200 deaths per year in Georgia from falling. Now, if you don't fall and kill yourself, be sure to take extra care while firing your weapon because over 1400 people die each year in the U.S. from accidental gunshot wounds. Half of all snake bites are due to a person trying to kill or capture a snake, but if you're lucky and successfully kill the snake without getting bit, you still have to drive home. Now, here is where things get scary. There are less than 15 deaths from snakebites per year in the entire nation and over 2300 deaths in the state of Georgia from auto accidents every year. If you make it home and are able to go to sleep, make sure the blankets don't cover your head during the night, because in Georgia there are 200 deaths annually from suffocation. Maybe you should remove all the blankets and plastic bags in your house just to be on the safe side. Now, as you are sleeping with no blankets you must turn the heat up a bit. Hopefully the furnace doesn't catch fire and allow you be one of the 200 Georgians that die this year from burning to death. Having trouble sleeping now? Be careful with the sleeping pills because over 300 people die each year in Georgia from poisoning.
Moral of the story - LEAVE THE SNAKES ALONE!

                                                                                                                 ~Jason Clark