I knew the corridor outside my front door was narrow, but I didn’t know for sure how slim it was until a recent fire safety-related circular prompted me to whip out a measuring tape.

In a land where private property is venerated and “get off my lawn” has become a mantra of jokey crankiness, the American front door is the landscape’s most intimate and personal of borders ...

One of the attackers and the homeowner outside the front door. Homeowner's surveillance camera The homeowner whipped out his weapon and squeezed off at least a half-dozen rounds at the retreating ...