Gadafii thought he would be smarter than Bin Ali and Mubarak and start off with deadly force from the get-go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUliy-UCu0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjhqR4WZw0 Libya is not the States where you can go to Walmart and buy guns, all the guns they have came from capturing those who were killing them. I wont post images but if you look for them you'll find them, people torn apart, split into two, from the use of heavy weaponry. A simple bullet will kill an unprotected protester, but he decided that using anti-air weapons, 14inch rounds, would frighten people more and thus end the protests. 300+ people were killed on the first day of protests in Tripoli, equivalent to the total dead in Egypt and Tunisia.