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You're overstating the case.
It's true that a 12-year-old girl dual-wielding a hatchet and a knife is someone I or most men could easily overcome unarmed without a high chance of wounds, but this isn't because the weapons can't break skin (it's not that hard to break skin; I once accidentally stabbed myself with a table fork and hit bone). It's because in both cases I could catch the swing; a hatchet has a haft that's safe to grab and a knife isn't long enough to counteract my reach and speed advantage (so I could grab her arm before the knife reached my torso). If you gave her a sword (and I weren't wearing hand protection) it'd be quite a bit dicier, because they're much, much harder to catch bare-handed; I'm not saying she'd win but the potential for wounds is high enough to still be a massive deterrent (particularly when taking into account that in this hypothetical I'm a criminal who instigated the fight, which means that if I go to hospital and they ask "why was this guy in a swordfight?" there's a chance of winding up in jail).
And let's not even get into bows. Yes, I've met Anthony Kelly, but I'm not Anthony Kelly, and even he isn't 100% reliable at that trick (note that his world records were against somebody only half-drawing a simple bow, so that's basically tween-girl levels, and even then he didn't catch all of them).
Good points, but I'm not sure you'll have better luck going around the UK with a sword or a longbow (the worm has sure turned on those laws!) than a gun or a knife?
Might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb, so they say; are you doing your part?
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