The story of a Texas teen stabbing another teen to death at a track meet has taken off since it happened last week. 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death, all because Metcalf has told Anthony he was in the wrong tent. Anthony ruthlessly stabbed Metcalf in the heart, all in the name of 'being a man.' In reality, it is because America has coddled a bizarre culture of violent retaliation when someone 'disrespects you.'
In no world does someone asking you to move, or threatening to throw a punch, give you right to stab someone to death. More inexplicably, Anthony has since claimed it was self-defense, because Metcalf had touched him. The Left has come to his defense as well, claiming he was using Texas' 'Stand Your Ground Law.' Again, stabbing someone to death over being touched, without a weapon, is not grounds for killing someone. In any reality.
Since the incident, Anthony's family put up a GoFundMe page with a goal of $100,000 to be raised. Then, coincidentally, when they hit that mark, their goal suddenly became $150,000. You might think no one would support that. But you would be wrong. Because the Left has been flooding the page, and now they sit at almost $150,000 raised. Now the goal is $200,000, because of course it is. For an illogical teen who decided spending life in prison was a better option than just leaving the tent when asked.
Alex Del Carmen, a criminology professor at Tarleton State University, says this whole idea of 'self-defense' from Anthony holds no water.
"I just do not see how self defense would stick in a court of law, with reasonable and sensible people, who understand that a fist fight does not have to result in a stabbing," he says.
The Left has claimed Anthony is innocent, and somehow, it is all Metcalfs fault. In some vein attempt at flipping the script and turning this entire thing into a race issue. It simply is not. Crimes have punishments. Maybe do not stab someone who tells you to leave their tent. Just a thought.
This is also nothing new as far as fundraisers for criminals go. People did the same thing during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, and in that case, BLM took the money and disappeared into the night. Leaders of the organization bought mansions and fancy things with money donated to fundraiser.
But it is a concerning trend, fundraising boatloads of money to support legal fees for someone who has committed a heinous crime.
"It is really sad to see the erosion of our American society to make everything about relativity, as opposed to the fact there is a right, and there is a wrong, and things we will simply not allow," says Del Carmen. "As George Washington once said, we are a nation of laws. Sadly, that has been eroding."
The Left has also pointed to various cases for self-defense grounds, such as the Kyle Rittenhouse case. However, Rittenhouse, who was protecting businesses from rioters, had the rifle of his gun grabbed by someone else. He then fatally shot them. Grabbing someone's legal gun from them is vastly different than just someone shoving or touching you.
It is all some delusional defense based in fantasy land.
But none of it is surprising. As mentioned, we have coddled a weird culture in America in the last few decades, where responding with violence to minor things is acceptable. It should not be. Yet, we continue glorifying criminals who respond with violence to trivial things.
"People are looking at these people, talking about what heroes they are, when in fact, they have committed horrible crimes," says Del Carmen.
It is all just more evidence of the Left's strange stance on supporting criminals based on 'racial prejudice,' or whatever they want to call it. It should be simple. Crime is bad, stabbing someone over nothing is bad. It should be punished. But that is too much logic for Democrats to handle.
In the end, it makes them look worse, and it's a reason why the party is collapsing in popularity.
Anthony, meanwhile, is being held on a million-dollar bond and faces capital murder charges.
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