As Gaffer said, it's illegal to kill non-venomous snakes. The burden is on YOU to know what the bad snakes are and to recognize them. Remember Jeff Cooper's 4th fundamental rule of gun safety: Know your target..." That's the issue here. Target identification.
As an aside, right now most cops in Georgia aren't really too gung-ho about enforcing this law.
If the animal rights wackos get a little more power and have their hysterical, emotional policies infect the law enforcement and criminal justice systems, you could have much stronger investigation and prosecution of these crimes. Since killing a non-game animal that is not regarded as being a pest and commonly treated as a pest is a crime, it's theoretically possible for it to be charged as "animal cruelty" -- which could be a felony.
Keep in mind how the anti-gun crowd would LOVE TO SEE that all poaching /unlawful killing of animals BE PROSECUTED AS FELONIES, since that would increase the number of people who can't legally have guns or ammo anymore, and that further erodes the Second Amendment.
As an aside, right now most cops in Georgia aren't really too gung-ho about enforcing this law.
If the animal rights wackos get a little more power and have their hysterical, emotional policies infect the law enforcement and criminal justice systems, you could have much stronger investigation and prosecution of these crimes. Since killing a non-game animal that is not regarded as being a pest and commonly treated as a pest is a crime, it's theoretically possible for it to be charged as "animal cruelty" -- which could be a felony.
Keep in mind how the anti-gun crowd would LOVE TO SEE that all poaching /unlawful killing of animals BE PROSECUTED AS FELONIES, since that would increase the number of people who can't legally have guns or ammo anymore, and that further erodes the Second Amendment.