Sunday Breakfast Menu, Dec. 23

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Just over a week since a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school left 26 dead, the debate over how to prevent future shootings continues. Following the National Rifle Association's announcement Friday of a new initiative to put an armed guard in every school, N.R.A. officials will join the Sunday shows to talk about the proposal.

David Keene, the president of the N.R.A., will join CBS's “Face the Nation” to discuss gun violence along with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, and Senat or Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat who called the Connecticut shooting a “game changer.”

Also on the program will be Representative Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican who has been tapped to fill retiring Senator Jim DeMint's seat, and the actor Ben Affleck, the founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative.

Wayne LaPierre, a vice president of the N.R.A., will appear on NBC's “Meet the Press.” Plus, as Congress and the White House break for Christmas without a deal to avert the looming fiscal crisis, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, discuss the prospects for compromise.

Asa Hutchinson, a former Drug Enforcement Administration administrator and congressman who is head of the N.R.A.'s new effort to prevent school shootings, is scheduled to be on ABC's “This Week” and CNN's “State of the Union.”

On ABC, Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, will also discuss talks to avoid the fiscal cliff and gun violence.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, will also talk about guns on CNN, and Representatives Mick Mulvaney, Republican of South Carolina, and Steven C. LaTourette, Republican of Ohio, will weigh in on the fiscal debate.

Senator Ken t Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, will also talk about the struggle to reach a deal on “Fox News Sunday.” Plus, Rick Warren, the evangelical minister and author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” talks about his now 10-year-old bestseller.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles will be on Telemundo's Spanish-language public affairs program, “Enfoque,” talking about gun control. TV One's “Washington Watch” also focuses on gun control and mental health care.

C-Span's “Newsmakers” has Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York, incoming ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, discussing the review of the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

And Bloomberg's “Political Capital” features Representative Kevin Br ady of Texas, the Republican deputy whip, top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.