Actor Liam Neeson is urging U.S. officials to bring in a curb on gun possession to prevent another high school massacre.

The Schindler's List star is adamant lawmakers need to act to avoid a repeat of bloodbaths such as the incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 when 20 children and six staff were gunned down.

Neeson has branded the current way of dealing with gun control in the U.S. "crazy" and insists officials should follow the U.K., where handguns were swiftly outlawed following the Dunblane school massacre in Scotland in 1996.

He tells British magazine Radar, "I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we're seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby's response to Newtown was? The National Rifle Association's official response was, 'If that teacher had been armed...' It's crazy.

"I'll give Britain its dues, when they had the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, within 24 hours the gun laws were changed so you could not have a handgun... It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted."