I was watching Gunsmoke, " the bullet " pt2 and some girl who wasn't raised properly was telling Doc and Kitty about how bad guns are.
Doc says to her " Matt's gun has saved a lot more lives than it's ever taken " then " guns are a part of this life little lady, just the same as the breed of men who use them ".
I have never heard such a universally true and important pro gun message in any TV show, and I am very surprised that this part of the episode ( which isn't really necessary to the plot ) hasn't been edited out or that the entire 2 part episode hasn't just been removed from syndication entirely.
There are a lot of great shows from the 60's as I'm sure you're all well aware of, and I'm sure you also know liberalism started to corrupt TV in the 70's.
I guess being a 1971 episode it had not been infected yet, not that I've seen an episode to date with liberal corruption.