Crotalus,
My welcome won't be as cordial. It would be rather poor manners to walk into a room of folks conversing about a topic and insult many of them by calling them cowards - and, this you accomplished in your very first post!
If you depend on snakes to keep the mouse/rat population low in your house, you must be inundated with snakes. It would be simpler to have the ultimate mouser, a cat, in your home for such duties. Cats, unlike other predators, will, as will man, kill for fun, not just for food. As far as feral animals of all kinds, they came from somewhere. Better to fine those who 'dump' cats, dogs, etc, and deal with them, than simply destroy the animals. That may get rid of the immediate threat, but the source, that neighbor who put their domesticated pets 'out' to fiend for themselves, is the real problem.
Now, about bees... if you are referring to true bees, ie, honey bees, not to worry. Their numbers, sad to say for those of us who enjoy honey, are shrinking yearly worldwide. Yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, a different matter entirely... as are the various 'biting' ants... a real problem, as one usually doesn't know when the next 'bite/sting' will cause a severe allergic response. From my experience, 'The Judge' would make a poor means of dispatching a hornet's nest anyway.
Pardon my sensitivity re cats - but we are 'cat people' - and gun afficionado's. We have five housebound cats, a sixth succumbing to heart problems at sixteen last month. Of course, to make my life more enjoyable, I am allergic to the cats... hooray for antihistamines. Rant over... find a thread to post a positive response in - maybe even retract your 'coward' remark, as well - most of the folks here are top drawer.
Stainz
