Unsafety

[When] private men begin once to presume to give law to themselves, and to right their own wrongs, no man can foresee the dangers and inconveniences that may arise and multiply thereupon. It may cause sudden storms in Court, to the disturbance of his Majesty, and unsafety of his person.

This sense of unsafety and instability is at the heart of the books.

Nathan had been lying; he'd never unsafetied the rifle.