First of all I live in France, but I also lived for four and a half years in Miami, FL. Before that I lived in Germany - and I still am German.
French TV is pretty open towards sexual content, German TV is even more of that. There are TV-Shows in Germany where people date another totally naked, and there are camera-zooms onto everything that you expect to be “pixeled”. It is not pixeled, it is clear and in full screen and it starts at about 2200 in the evening.
Yes, that is trash-TV. Nobody cares about the couples that have found another there (for one night or less). It’s all about voyeurism, but nudity is nowhere forbidden or even “problematic”. Films like “9 songs” have been broadcasted at 2015 on public free-TV. Including very explicit sexual intercourse and camera between the legs during long sequences.
This is what I mean when saying that I have a problem with showing how to kill people but not how to make them. Is that important? Not so much when you need a starter for some private handiwork - there are millions of websites where you can see it all just a click away, and you don’t have to respect the broadcasting schedule for that. But it is important in the sense of being cool and relax about a very natural thing: nudity (and maybe a bit more).
Next to that some great US TV-shows have been sold to European networks; we partly watch the same programs you do and I am a huge fan of Justified. I think i’m in my third tour, having watched it on TV in 2012 or so and then on amazon prime 18 months ago and re-started last week. Not exactly free of gun violence, I know.
Nazi propaganda and even just drawing a Swastika is forbidden in Germany and gets punished. I never felt that being a problematic shortage in free expression. If you grow up in Germany, the twelve years from 33 to 45 are a (too) big part of your history lessons and you will most likely not feel the wish or need to be identified as a nazi or just extreme right-wing supporter.
2017 was the first ever election that an extreme-right party (the AfD) made it into the German parliament, collecting 13% of the votes. Now, one year later, their star is already falling, because people start to understand that they are all talk and no game.
Yes, Germany and France are quite different from the USA.