It all depends on what you’re protected FROM.
This earthly life is going to be over some day anyway and while there are ways I would prefer to die and to prefer not to die, ultimately, while my body may perish, my soul is safe forever and once I’m dead, nothing can ever hurt me again.
A lot of people are wondering where God was when those people got killed in that SC church and He was right there, turning what the enemy meant for evil into good.
Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His saints.
Romans 8:28