"I'm simply protesting against a brutal, barbaric activity that can be potentially lethal and certainly perilous to the health of those practising it."
Well then we'd also better ban car racing, motor bike racing, horse riding, hang gliding, parachuting, rock climbing, white water rafting, bushwalking, cycling, smoking, drinking, laughing, shagging, salt, butter, meat, driving v8's, light planes, underground mining, etc etc etc.
They're all potentially bad for us in one way or another.