GOP: Pro-life, Law & Order party

House Republican appropriators Wednesday rejected a proposal to designate millions of dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for gun violence research, voting 32-20 to keep the language out of a fiscal 2019 spending bill.

The party-line vote marked Democrats’ latest failed bid to spur studies into preventing firearm-related injuries and deaths — and comes despite a bipartisan agreement earlier this year that the CDC is permitted to conduct such research. The agency's ability to study gun violence had been limited by a 1996 provision that prevented the CDC from collecting data to advocate for gun control.

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“They’re free to research anything they care to research,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.).

  Politico

It can't happen if you don't fund it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.