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Intenionally killing is wrong, no matter what the circumstances. People can and will recover from anything you do to them, save one thing, and that's killing them. It's the only truly permanent effect that you can have on someone Maiming, mentally harming, whatever, those can be counteracted in some small way, killing cannot.
If someone was going to rape my family, hopefully I'd find some way to stop him, short of killing him. A steel-toed boot to the scrotum would probably change his mind and it would
be hard to think about sex after I sledgehammered his knee.
If you believe in an afterlife and would like it to be pleasant, than wouldn't you want other people to feel such pleasantness? Killing someone, under any kind of belief system that has anything like karma would make that person suffer, but if they survived, they'd have a chance to make right what they did. If you don't give them a chance to make amends, aren't you condeming them to a bad existence, which if you believed in anything that has an afterlife dependent on your current life's behaviour, wouldn't you have just commited an attrocity that would assure yourself a bad place also?
That being said, with something like what is currently happening with the US army, I will not hold it against any one of them if they need to kill anyone. I want them to be as safe as possible. The ones that I believe should be held responsible, however are the leaders of the armed forces that put the enlisted men and women into such a situation.
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