The State - News from Aug. 17, 1987
A 15-car caravan of Guardian Angels left Los Angeles for Sacramento on a mission to persuade the state Legislature to adopt a law imposing a 25-year prison sentence on those convicted of highway or drive-by shootings. Curtis Sliwa, founder of the urban self-defense group, said the proposed law would exclude probation, parole or plea bargaining in such cases. Sliwa said the group gathered 100,000 names on petitions for the law and planned to present them today to state Sen. Art Torres (D-Los Angeles) in Sacramento after stops in Bakersfield, Fresno and San Francisco.
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