A small flower shop in Nashville, Tennessee, has made headlines after it refused to provide services to the national Republican Party for a large fundraising event this weekend.
The couple who owns the shop, Alex Vaughn and Quinn Kiesow, say that they will not ‘take money’ from the Republican party until they agree to adopt gun control measures in the wake of the Nashville shooting at Covenant School that took the lives of three students and three school staff members.
Vaughn and Kiesow issued a statement on their Instagram announcing their decision not to provide services to the RNC and calling on other Nashville businesses to “say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for.”
Nashville flower shop refuses service to Republican event, blames GOP for Christian school shooting https://t.co/Keyqu7G8kb
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 14, 2023
Vaughn and Kiesow went so far as to blame Republicans for the recent Nashville shooting for not supporting gun control, saying they helped to ‘create the tragedy’ and others like it.
“Our community just lost seven people, including three young children, to yet another school shooting,” wrote the FLWR owners. “At this moment, I cannot ignore the work that the RNC has done to create this tragedy and so many others like it.”
They went further, attacking the Republican Party’s efforts to prevent children from seeing sexualized drag shows and saying that the party should instead acquiesce on gun control.
“The Republican party not only refuses to enact change, but many members of the party have worked to pass legislation that makes this problem worse, like the recent changes to gun laws here in Tennessee,” they continued. “The Republican Party has wasted taxpayer money and precious legislative will on banning drag shows, rather than assault rifles that are being used to murder children in their classrooms.”
“We will not be accepting any of your money,” FLWR concluded.
People were quick to criticize the couple, with one Twitter user pointing out that being able to deny services to events that go against a business’s values is a luxury reserved for liberals.
SHOCK: Nashville flower shop called FLWR owned by Alex Vaughn and Quinn Kiesow has refused to provide memorial flowers for the six victims of the transgender killer. If the victims were LGBTQ the court would force them to provide flowers. https://t.co/Z9NHtriq2I pic.twitter.com/Fodk6amPbz
— @amuse (@amuse) April 14, 2023
Another user criticized the fact that the couple refused to acknowledge that the shooter was transgender or that narratives surrounding ‘gender-affirming care’ played any role in the tragedy.
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A Nashville Flower 💐 shop is under fire for blaming Republicans for the Covenant School shooting despite the fact the attack was carried out by a far left Transgender shooter.
The owners of the FLWR Shop have refused to provide flowers for a GOP event and urged all other… pic.twitter.com/lGMdQWrK6J
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 14, 2023
While Nashville police have not yet released the manifesto written by the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, they did make it clear that she explicitly targeted her former school because it was a Christian school and had plans to harm students and staff at other Christian schools.
Less than two weeks after the tragic shooting in Nashville, a transgender ‘copycat’ shooter was arrested for planning an attack on three schools in Colorado Springs.
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The shooter, 19-year-old William Whitworth, also wrote a manifesto that reportedly included anti-Trump and anti-conservative invective.
BREAKING: A potential transgender mass shooter was just arrested in Colorado Springs. https://t.co/b5uMmALNFD pic.twitter.com/v1wNgEEjVJ
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) April 6, 2023
Top Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, will attend the Republican donor retreat the shop refused to serve.
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