This past summer I had a little incident, after looking back on it I have been wondering if I had have been armed at the time if I would have been in the clear to have fired. Here is the situation, I was working with a lawncare company and the boss allows me to carry, I just leave it locked up in the truck during the day, one day I was working in a rather nice area in West Knoxville when about 2ft in front of me I came upon a snake which was coiled up and then struck at me. Luckily I was able to jump away before it got me. My question is, if I was carrying at the time how big of a deal would it have been if I had shot the snake? Obviously I could claim self-defense, but again this was a very nice subdivision that I was in.