What do you do if someone rings your doorbell at 3 AM? Massad Ayoob has some information on the topic.
I will only include one item from the video.
One of the principle groups who will ring your doorbell at 3 AM is the police. They would be waking you at 3 AM to report that they recovered your stolen car at 2 AM. Which was likely stolen at 1 AM, after you went to bed. You don't want to frighten them into shooting you, because while I believe that you have the right to be armed in your own home at 3 AM, cops will shoot you (they have demonstrated that often enough) for no good reason, because they are all scared of everything, and they will probably get away with it because cops get away with just about everything. That has begun to change a bit finally, but it would be cold comfort to know that after you're dead the idiot cops would be arrested.
And security cameras are not expensive.
One other thing Massad Ayoob mentions is that it isn't the primary gun owner in a household that he is worried about. You want to arrange things so that the person in the home who thinks the world is full of rainbows and puppies and people who would NEVER do you harm, don't have the option to open the door before they can verify who is on the other side. A security camera and an intercom makes that easy.
This is the Wilson Combat video featuring Massad Ayoob - How to answer the door at 3:00 AM - Critical Mas Episode 30
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