It has become necessary to open this thread in the feminism forum because it's not possible to have a civil discussion in threads which contain comments like these:
if you think it only costs 4 million dollars a year to operate the registry you will likely believe anything that suits you regardless of common sense, and it's attitudes like that and 'women wanted it' (women are always right?) or 'the victims mothers wanted it (uh.. same thing) that lead to this waste of time and false hope to begin with. But it sure did get the libs some votes and thats what really matters.