Say what you want about the tranchers, but they never randomly killed people or advocated for it, even when the very real earl was actively trying to destroy them. They're grifters, but the didn't promote a mass shootings and still act like they didn't kill an alpaca (minus all the ones admitted to, ignore those).
It's a good question if Phil wants a gun club for troons, a LARP session, or actual militia to boss around back in his Tenacious Battalion period. Whatever it was, he wanted company, power, and respect, and to shoot guns. He at least seemed to be interested in learning how to make improvised bombs according to BonBon for whatever that's worth and went silent around that time along with the Paul Liistro involvement.
Ultimately he's a gigantic pussy who wants his cozy life shitting his pants, pretend farming, and being a burden on society. They don't advocate for killing random people since they want to be heros,. Theoretically, the FtM monster shooter did too: it's why she targeted the bigoted christian school she used to go to, revenge for life and revenge on Christian conservatives voting against trans things. The best I can say about the tranch is that Penny seems like if he wanted anything done he'd rather go for the top brass causing the problem & the people actively engaging with trans people/he baits into attacking. An adult TERF was seen as a combatant to him, but his paranoia extends to "combatants" rather than those around him in his stolen valor LARP: who's there to worship him if he breaks some of those laws (even if the woman protestor wasn't breaking any, it was in his and Bonnie's head)?
TL;DR, Penny has the urge to provoke fights so he can still yell "DON'T TREAD ON ME" and shoot and intimate things to soothe his ego but isn't sociopathic enough to go that route nor is he willing to give up life with his hoard of animals and his hoard of stank ass men who eat junkfood and weed with him all day. He's an activist hero in his own mind, even if his vision of it is fucking stupid, but more importantly he's not compelled to punish everyone, just those he sees as active enemies.
The other founder, Bonobo, I could see trying to punish people more harshly: he's trying to get Tenacious shut down because they hurt him personally, not because it was the right thing to do. He goes scorched earth out of selfishness and doesn't care as much where the wildfire burns, as long as he gets his. He's still fat, lazy, and selfish, which fortunately prevents him from moving an inch of his easy chair aside from whinging about it on the internet and dealing with it through the law (as the law can legally hurt the tranchers more and he just wants revenge they can't fight against).
