I never said the general preservation of human life was what I was discussing. Of course I'd prefer no one die at all.
I'd also prefer immigrants, lgbt+, and others wouldn't be hunted for who they are.
I clearly highlighted that an at risk group is trying to empower themselves due to the impending risk from actual threats made publicly against them.
Who am I (or you) to tell those folks they are in the wrong to reach for whatever tools they can access? (Be it speech, political action, or indeed self defence)
IM not worried (or therefore the actor in your suggested paranoid imaginings), because I'm not a member of a target group. The trick is I can empathize with their position, and I can recognize that although I'm not in a target group now, I sure could be in the future.
For those reasons I would never get in the way of folks defending themselves, especially when this group is interested in training and safe practices.
The people who "take priority" are those in harm's way, and we aren't the ones to tell them how to live right now, there hearing MORE them enough of that as it is