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It's not an argument against CCW, its an argument against the viability of a study on the effects of CCW. You may feel that the patterns change etc, but in large part the generally safe areas are the same as they were 20-30 years ago and the generally crime ridden ones are too.
Chicago's history very early on pushed the lower income folks into specific areas and for the most part they have been stuck there ever since. While some of the areas have changed demographics somewhat over the years, certain areas in the south and west sides are just unfortunately stuck as is.
Certain border neighborhoods like wicker park and bronzeville have changed over the years, but they benefit from not being in the heart of the rough neighborhoods. Additionally, the bronzeville area had all of nearly all of the low income public housing torn down, and what little was replaced in the area was replaced with mixed-income housing.
However, at this point the Daley-era urban redevelopment is over. Even then, the effect wasn't decreasing the crime so much over all within the select demographics, but shifting it slightly to new areas.
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