Police today revealed the Newtown synagogue vandals attempted to light a fire outside the shule. 

The only way to restore deterrence is through swift arrests and severe punishment. We are facing serious threats to our national security. Current legal, policing and sentencing frameworks have not kept pace with a rapidly changing level of threat and the result is a culture of impunity in which attacks on Jews carry little consequence and much prestige for violent extremists. 

If this doesn’t stop this crisis will become deadly.