Skateboarding should be banned

My opponent's first point was that, even if we do indeed ban skateboarding, Kids will continue to vandalize property, and my opponent is probably right. But the type of vandalism I'm talking about is the type directly caused by skateboarding. Most tricks done on a skateboard involve sliding or "grinding" on a ledge or handrail, and this causes the ledges and handrails to loose their shape and become less sturdy, along with loosing their initial nice look. Skateboarders do this so much, that stores sell signs to put in your window saying "No Skateboards Allowed", and since this obviously did not work some places have even had to spend money out of their own pocket to put studs along their ledges and handrails to keep the skaters away. If we have to go to such lengths to stop people from vandalizing our property via skateboarding, I say we take it a step further and ban it all together. My opponent's second point was to rebut my initial point that skateboarding is dangerous. He merely brushed this off as "A slippery slope argument" not only did he call it that, but he called it "absolute tyranny, among other things". He seemed to think that a government should not have the right to save lives by banning a completely dangerous sport. Well if this is the case, why is base jumping and elevator surfing illegal. Both these sports have far less deaths and injures per year than skateboarding, and yet, skateboarding remains legal. In fact, Santa Barbara has been considering banning skateboarding for quite a while because of how skateboarders not only endanger themselves while recklessly swerving all over the road, but skating also endangers car drivers. According to study I brought up before from the AAP 25% of all skateboarding injury's and deaths involve an automobile as well. If skaters continue to endanger not only their own lives, but the lives of people around them, then I say we do have the right to make a decision for them. Because if we don't who knows who the next victim of one of these accidents will be? The next point brought up by my opponent was that banning skateboarding would go against all we stand for as Americans. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is nothing in the constitution about dangerous extreme sports. We may stand for liberty, freedom, and apple pie, but we also stand for something a lot bigger. The knowledge that our American citizens can be safe. And if we stand idly by while skateboarders continue to make our roads unsafe, then we have forsaken our greatest belief as Americans. For we originally didn't rebel against the British because we wanted to be free, we Rebelled against the British because we didn't want the Lobster backs endangering the lives of everyday Americans, like what happened during the Boston Massacre. My opponent's next point regarded an un-cited, opinionated statement claiming that Skateboarding is "generally" a positive activity. According to the AAP, 90% of skateboarders skate outside of a skateboarding park in an urban area, and I don't know about Green Bay, but in Sacramento, and any other big city in my area, skating is already illegal in urban areas. And upon searching for a while, I found out that it is also illegal in most of New York and DC. If most of the skateboarders out there are already breaking the law, then I say we should crack down a little more. The next 3 points brought up by my opponent were saying, it is an Injustice to the skateboarding professionals, manufacturers, and everyday enthusiasts to ban skateboarding. I will first start out with the professionals point by saying that it will be no more of an injustice to the skateboarding pro's than it was to the Base Jumping professionals, and when base jumping was banned the professionals just found another country in which to base jump in, and I'm sure skateboarding pro's will find a similar way to follow their career path. And just a side note to this point, a law is passed not by bringing up emotional scenarios ie "would you look them in the eye", laws are passed in legislators, in other words, they are passed by the government, and no amount of black eyed stares could ever change that, and in fact I have looked a skater in the eye and told him that I would want skateboarding banned. He looked back and started cursing like a sailor and almost punched me in the face, that skater was 11. That is the sport you are defending. .. Anyways, on to my next point regarding the skateboard manufacturers. Skateboarding, as I'm sure you know, is a derivative of surfing, and most skateboarding companies have surfing products as well, like sector 9. Though banning skating may hurt them a little bit, it's not going to make that much of a difference. And finally, everyday enthusiasts are what ruined skating to begin with, we wouldn't have any of the problems we have today if people had just followed the law. And finally, skateboarding enforcement wouldn't be that hard. We already have cop cars patrolling the streets and catching a skater would be as easy as giving him a ticket. We wouldn't put a skater in jail, we would merely fine him a large amount, which would actually help the state more than it would hurt it, and if a skateboarding underground actually forms, the amount of money formed by the tickets may actually help pay for the 22,000 a year for our jails. I hope you consider my point's greatly and vote con. Thanks for reading :)