Cobra answer you quite well. But I give you some extra Info.
Currently the Poland have the 1,3 ratio of guns per 100 citizens.In 1 000 crowd only 13 persons have guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
We are betwen Germany and Russia, and have borders with Ukraine. Recently on one of our villagers bullet where fired from the Ukraine border.
http://media2.mic.com/33c74cd9272b76e24928de7cb85361e6.png
That small green part near Lithuaine and Poland is Kalingrad and it's belong to Russia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
And majority of Polish people are scared of Guns.
The Police man can refuse giving you permission for a gun because he say so. The entire process is hard and heavy regulated.
People are against liberalisation of that laws. They don't have culture like USA where people see gun as a tool of Freedom and Liberation.They must be first convince that giving majority of people guns will not result in massacre. Than they must be educated/train of using guns. Lastly they must be eguip with them. This will take years. Not tens of years. But time is required. Until this, the organized military is all that stand between Poland, and Russia or Germany.For does who wonder: Between Poland and Germany there is no actual peace Treaty. From 1945 Poland and Germany are on Cease fire. The closest thing we have is German-Polish Border treaty from 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_%281990%29
Lastly the NATO with is Paper Tiger. I personally and many people from Poland (Politicians, Generals) agree that NATO will not protect us. If I remember correctly they can send one box on ammunition and letter of support and by all legal means be done. They met all treaty obligation.
So sorry but I will not support anything other than slow planed reforms. Jumping from current state to anything that resemble ideal(of this community) state is simple to risky.
But this is just my opinion.