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I’ve never understood how one mission with a handful of Spaniards could control all people over a hundred or more square mile area.

The ones with the guns impose the rules.

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The government wants to disarm us after 244 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!

[ifinnegan]

I’ve never understood how one mission with a handful of Spaniards could control all people over a hundred or more square mile area.
The ones with the guns impose the rules.

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Yes, but given the numbers that was impossible to use pure force based on some priests with primitive guns.