The film is claimed to be an allegory of the building of a political system. Namely, that adventure and arbitrariness have at some point to give way to the rule of law if a community is to thrive. Thriving means that the cattle is peacefully fattened in fenced off properties and the cereal is safely stored in the barn. Then you can settle down and have children, who you may in due course send to school to, ideally, learn to improve their lot.
The point of the story here is that, in a disorganized territory where only the rule of gun was acknowledged, it had to be violence fighting violence that was eventually able to impose the rule of law.
It is also our story. If we can now exercise our freedom in ways unimagined elsewhere, it is because, when our forefathers were writing the charter of rights, there was always a Tom Doniphon close by.
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