-mexico border in addition to combatting local crimes pinal county and its sheriff paul babeu face awing and deadly threat. >> cocaine, black tar heroin, and black amphetamine, very dangerous drugs. me and my deputies and all the local officers are on the front lines of this drug war. >> and on april 17th, 2011, babeu says the ripple effects of that drug war find their way to the front steps of his jail in florence. 26-year-old alejandro guerrero is about to be released after being arrested for an outstanding warrant. he has been in and out of arizona correctional facilities for about four years. >> he is a violent offender. this is a guy who has been convicted of aggravated assault, who's been dealing with domestic violence and serious other felonies. >> now guerrero is free to go. he just needs to fill out some paperwork. >> this is an occasion that any prisoner, it's like their high five moment. hey, i'm about to have my freedom again, right? >> but guerrero might not want to leave the jail. why? a worst fate could await him on the outside. >> he said there was a hit upon him, mea

sheriff paul babeu is "outfront" tonight.r joining us. >> thank you, john. >> sheriff, i understand the attractiveness of this proposal, an armed guard, a school member training with a weapon. but let's look at the facts, going back to columbine and virginia tech, columbine, they had two armed guards on the campus at the time, virginia tech had 34 armed guards. yet 13 killed in columbine, 32 at virginia tech. so the evidence, sheriff, suggests that armed guards on campus do not stop school massacres. >> well, you see a school that i grew up in, there was just one building. and some of these campuses or college campuses, as you point out, there could be eight, there could be 20-some odd buildings. and to my point, training and arming designated school administrators or designated teachers, not everyone, some school districts may not want to do this, but for those who do, law enforcement provides them that training, and they would be a critical, immediate response to an active shooter. because these safe school zones with the g