It is the firing pin block that makes dropping the hammer with the decocker safe, albeit somewhat unnerving.
All were too wrung out to celebrate and too unnerved by tragedy.
Rail, underground and bus operators have been unnerved by those events.
There may, indeed, be a flirtation with nationalism, which will hypnotise the nationalists as much as it unnerves the other parties.
It will unnerve our allies because any breach makes them uncertain about the competence of our security services.
That combination of events has unnerved traders and that in turn has fuelled speculation.
Indeed, it is unnerving to find that only one-third of the domestic hearings in our magistrates' courts lasted for more than an hour.
That is enough to unnerve an old body.