Well, I'll start by saying that I live in a VERY small town here in VA, and the local paper is read by everyone. This morning I got to work and opened everything up like usual, then plopped down with the paper only to find the front page incredibly uphauling. A photo of a 10 year old girl stood dangling a 6 foot black snake that she had killed with a .22 caliber handgun. I'm not so upset that people kill blacksnakes, you can't expect people who hate snakes to understand the difference between venomous and nonvenomous species. There are, however, 2 things about this article that really get to me. One being the fact that people are allowing their 10 year old daughter's to shoot guns unsupervised. What exactly are these people thinking??? I mean I know I live in the south but DAMN... Secondly, the way the paper made the snake out to be so vicious... and basically promoted the slaying of innocent, harmless animals. I'm not sure what to do about this, but I feel as if something has to be done. I'm considering a letter to the editor, which will definitely get posted in one of next week's issues of the paper. In my letter I will definitely be including my phone numbers so that perhaps a few of these innocent snakes can be rescued and released into nice, people-free woods.