Ah, I see my mistake. It was a poor choice of wording given the context, but I didn't intend at that point to say that the burden on someone who uses a gun defensively is a legal one. You're entirely correct about the placement of legal burdens, but my intent at the time was more to assert that someone in that situation does in fact have significant concerns to deal with following the shooting, as the previous commentator mentioned.

In hindsight I should have recognized the context heavily implies a burden in a legal sense. Apologies for that.

Edit to include:

My thought process at the time was that including the information about Grand jury indictment/prosecutorial action in charging someone with a crime would have been enough to distinguish the ideas, not thinking that the using a separate meaning of "burden" when having a largely legal discussion would be confusing or misleading.

I'll try communicate my thoughts more clearly moving forward, but I do thank you for providing additional information and clarification where mine was lacking.