"and only 10% percent of the population agrees with the validity of that person's "authority" to cage them, don't you think we'd see more people with guns saying, "Uh, nope. Nice try, but you have no authority here. I'll freely defend myself against you."?"
Sure - but that's specifically 90% not believing in authority; which, again, isn't necessarily correlative to 90% not voting.
RE: A mathematical explanation how voting third party in 2016 is the only vote that counts