I'm afraid you have missed the point. I think it unlikely for postings to influence a charging decision, unless they relate to the case at thand. The concern about the risk of postings, posters, signs, emails, and dletters it pertains to criminal proceedings, has to do with a prosecutor's use of something that a defendant has wirtten or displayed that be taken as going to state of mind--mens rea---in order to help win the case.Yeah, not sure where you live, but you clearly haven't been paying attention to how prosecutors in certain jurisdictions have been deciding to file charges.
That can only become an issue after the charging decision has been made.
An example or this came up in the Larry Hickey case in Arizona. Hickey was criminally charged after firing his gun, injuring no one, as he was being overpowered by three unarmed attackers, successfully stopping the attack.
As evidence of mens rea, the state introduced a chart, prepared by someone else, that they found in his training folder. We've all heard the phrase: "be polite to everyone, but have a plan to kill them."
Jurors failed to belleve that the evidence failed to proved Hickey to have been guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. Affer two trials and three successful appeals the state dropped the charges--but not until he had spent considerable time behind bars.
That has been brought up as an example of that not to have in one's files in a number of use of force law lectures, and it is mentioned in our THR sticky abut being prudent in what we post.
Now, to be sure, I think it extremely doubtful that a flip statement about being "addicted" to firearms would ever be introduced in criminal court. It would take a lot ore than that.
The reason why it could prove to have been an unwise posting is that it could come up and be damaging in some kind of non-judicial discussion such as the choice among three candidates for employment or promotion. It is very doubtful that the cansidate would never know the reason for having been rejected. There are, of course, other possibilities.
Believe me, that is not just conjecture.