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On 2 December 2015, fourteen people were killed during a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. The shooters were identified as an American-born San Bernardino County employee named Sayed Farook and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik. Investigation of the shooting and clarification of its perpetrators' motives remained unclear into mid-December 2015. On 14 December 2015, the Facebook page Carter County Sheriff's Office (in Ardmore, Oklahoma) published a scanned, undated copy of a letter advocating that citizens arm themselves against possible future attacks: The text of the letter stated that: Reactions expressed via comments posted in response to that letter were mixed. Some readers firmly supported Sheriff Milton Anthony's response to the shooting: Other readers were unsettled by numerous points the sheriff made in his letter and voiced their opinions about them: How the letter was received is a subjective issue, but Carter County Oklahoma Sheriff Milton Anthony did indeed write and disseminate a letter to local residents urging them to consider obtaining firearms in response to the San Bernardino mass shooting. [article-meta]
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