One day it WILL come our way.
I don’t understand why we assume that it protects us. Seems to me that there is an equal chance that asteroids and comets could be nudged inward as well.
The only thing tilting the scale in favor of protection is that some will get caught in Jupiter’s gravity and crash into the planet.
Our ability to detect certain space objects is rather poor. We may only have a month or two warning before impact.
Our ability to touch them is even more poor. Part of the reason we need to be out there is to gain the ability to intercept such space objects.
The last major event was only about 100 years ago over Siberia. If that happens over a populated area, it would be devastation unlike anything we’ve ever seen.