The National Rifle Association has reacted to last week's deadly school shooting, blaming media and video games for creating a violent culture and calling for armed guards in America's schools.
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called on the US Congress to immediately pass legislation to place guards with guns in schools by the time classes resume from winter breaks in January.
With this proposal the NRA said it aims stop the next killer "waiting in the wings", with Mr LaPierre claiming that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Banks, sports stadiums, airports and court houses already have such protections, he said.
"If we truly cherish our kids more than our money, more than our celebrities... we must give them the greatest level of protection available," Mr LaPierre said.
Mr LaPierre advocated for a "model school shield" program consisting of volunteer patrols to be implemented at every school nationwide, at any cost.
The NRA's comments came exactly a week after a gunman killed 26 people at a Connecticut school, including 20 young children.
Former Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson, also speaking at the news conference, said armed, trained guards would be part of the program but not all of it.
Protesters were quickly removed He said local school boards could decide on a case-by-case basis if schools should not have guards.
Mr Hutchinson called the NRA a natural choice to head up the "potentially life-saving effort" because of its gun safety, marksmanship and hunter education programmes.
Two protesters from the social justice group Code Pink interrupted the news conference, holding banners in front of Mr LaPierre and shouting that the NRA "is killing our kids".
They were quickly removed from the room.
In terms of addressing mental health issues, Mr LaPierre suggested creating a national database of the mentally ill.
And he blasted the media and video game industries as "a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people".
The NRA's propositions come as President Barack Obama vowed to address gun control, and appointed Vice President Joseph Biden to lead a working group of administration officials and outside advisers to offer recommendations by January.
On Friday morning people in Newtown and across the nation observed a moment of silence to honour the shooting victims.
Gunman Adam Lanza, 20, also killed his mother one week ago before later taking his own life at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
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