Is assassination justified?

     To be honest I've been struggling with some questions. The biggest question, that I still cannot answer, is should a Christian be a part of a group to assassinate someone? Which leads me to another question, is there ever a time when Christ would lead you to assassinate someone?
    To make this question more relevent to modern times.... Would you kill a major sex-trafficer leader? If given the opportunity, would you? Knowing that by killing this person you'll free millions of abused, enslaved, horribly mistreated people? Knowing that this might be your only chance to end horrible injustice, to save dying people? The death of one person could bring a massive change to world, would you do it? I would want to say I would do it, but if came down to me actually pulling the trigger and ending this person's life, could I do it? I don't think I could.
    To be honest I look be to the early Christians for an example. They were mercilessly persecuted, killed, and tortured. Yet Christianity grew. Roman soldiers converted, many roman citizens, surely they had means and abilities to assassinate Caesar, to end the senseless massacre of people (Christians and Jews alike), but they didn't. Instead they didn't not fight back for their lives, they living sacrifices to Christ, even unto death. What ended up happening? Overtime Christianity became the main religion, and a supposedly Christian Emperor came to power (Constantine).
    But this goes against very nature, I'm a fighter. It's part of me, my family has military background, fighting is in my D.N.A and culture. In America, we are suppose to fight for our freedom, our lives, our rights. Fight against injustice, save the innocent! Correct? We are suppose to protect ourselves, aren't we? Or is all of this us trusting in ourselves, and not our God? I guess my question is, Where are Christians suppose to draw the line?
 
    A piece of "The Hiding Place", by Corrie TenBoom,  keeps running through my mind. In the book, Corrie talks about hiding Jews in her home, from Nazi's. She said that she would openly lie to save Jews in her home, even though lying is a sin. She knew that in her heart it was not sinning, she felt it was completely justified in order to save human lives and more importantly human souls. However her sister did not, and even she housed Jews too, she was questioned. Her sister answered plainly, that she was hiding people under the kitchen table. However, the Secret Police didn't not find the trap door was talking about and though she was just a crazy woman. Did Bonhoeffer feel as Corrie did? Was this assassination plot justified? Or was it not completely trusting in God?
  When the question comes down to me, I don't know the answer. All I can say is that it shouldn't matter what I think. It never really matters if my question ever get answered. As long as I am following Christ with all my life, no regrets, no looking back. I will follow as I'm lead to new and unfamiliar lands.  Who knows what difficult paths discipleship to Christ will take me? God forbid, but maybe one day I will be faced with this situation too?

Maybe this all seems like inherent rambling... I don't know. But that's some things that has been plaguing my mind.


 P.S. commented on Meghan's post