[buwaya]

This is not actually a stupid statement.
Aircraft carriers exist because there is a state and a society capable of putting sufficient resources to making and operating them.
.223 rifles, in sufficient numbers and in the right hands, are a way to make that society incapable of operating aircraft carriers.

[Scoutmaster]

Understood in that context.

However, the media's more concerned that I may sink one using a single armor-piercing .223 round.