As a Floridian, I assume you're aware of the Scarlet King snake aka False Coral snake? .
Although in the heat of battle sometimes you gotta kill first and ask questions later.
Yep, I'm familiar with king snakes (I've caught them up north). In fact, my brother and I use to collect a lot of snakes. I'm not scared of them at all (but I have a healthy respect for the bad ones). Been been numerous times by big rat snakes up north (usually when I started them under a piece of wood or something).