stick said:I guess you have never had a run in with one. Rattle snakes are deadly. thank God them people killed them.
That view is so narrow.
I have been around hundreds. They eat rats and mice, and bugs of all sorts.
Killing them is senseless and ignorant.
A bus will kill you if it runs over you...do you go around killing every bus you see?
There are very few deaths each year due to rattle snake bites. Probably less than three or four a year due to rattle snakes. Most of those are in situations where they cannot get medical help for days.