I liken your position to those who didn’t want to rock the boat back in the early 60’s when black people were trying to exercise their right to vote. Sometimes the only way to win is to get right in their faces.
Understand and disagree because of a substantive difference: At that time, most people voted and did not regard the exercise of the right as a threat. Most Californians do not own guns. I would hazard a guess that a majority consider gun ownership a threat to public safety. Giving the media an event to publicize where gun owners are pushing around the police with the law (however justified both in fact and principle) does not create the impression of an oppressed minority deprived of their rights.
Hence, I think yours a bad analogy.