andrew pollock, whose daughter meadow was skilled in the parkland shooting, has been involved from the these kids are going to be safer now from what i accomplished. hopefully the rest of the country is going to see what we did in polk county and we're going to lead by example. >> reporter: the polk county program was created by sheriff grady judd and school superintendent jacqueline bird. what about parents who are uncomfortable with more guns on campus or any guns on campus? >> those parents need to wake up and understand this is a new normal. this is the last best chance to save your child when all the different layers of security have failed. and their job is simply this, to be well trained, to react within seconds, to find the active shooter and kill him graveyard dead before he can hurt your child with a gun. >> we're talking about civilians here, not sheriff's deputies or police officers. >> everybody we hire in this industry starts out as a civilian. these folks are starting as civilians, but when they finish their training, they're going to be better trained with more hours an