Gain-of-function "researchers" and their funders are war criminals. They are guilty of crimes against humanity by creating and disseminating weapons of mass destruction. These crimes are more depraved than any from Josef Mengele and the Nazis because they portend the end of all humanity. What should be the penalty upon conviction by We the People of such crimes?  Our "government" is supposed to protect us from such atrocities. Instead, it has funded and promoted them through either ignorance, negligence, or insidious purpose. 
It's long past time for the Congress to formalize these crimes as actionable and the DOJ to prosecute these mass killers back to the hell they deserve. And while our Congress dawdles and pussy foots around, the individual States' Representatives and AG's must lead a pack of hounds to hunt down and shut down these dangerous "bio (weapons) labs. 
We also need a bioweapons treaty with teeth to punish any nation that partakes in this obscenity.